If you frequently travel through Cleveland on your way to Clermont or Gainesville chances are you’ve experienced traffic delays in recent months due to construction of the new Cleveland Bypass. Work on the long-awaited project began in early August. The original deadline for completion already has passed and now a new deadline has been set.
The Georgia Department of Transportation issued a press release today citing a new target completion date of April 30, 2015, weather permitting. The original target completion date of the Cleveland Bypass was July 31 of this year. Each day since, and until construction’s complete, the DOT is penalizing Sunbelt with a daily fine of $1,869 for missing the original deadline. The DOT says it’s “working diligently with Sunbelt Structures to finish Phase One of the Cleveland Bypass.
The contract to build Phase One the Cleveland Bypass in White County was awarded to Sunbelt Structures, Inc. of Tucker. This 1.97 mile long project begins at Hope Drive at SR 11/US 129 and extends northwest to SR 115.
