The proposed project includes the re-alignment of the existing highway to bring the horizontal and vertical curves up to current AASHTO design standards and adding six-foot paved and four-foot earthen shoulders for a total shoulder width of ten-feet for a distance of approximately 1.5 miles from a point 3,700-feet east of Ryo Mountain Road in Gordon County (MP 26.9) east to a point 1,700-feet west of Davis Road in Pickens County (MP 1.0). The new roadway would include three twelve-foot travel lanes and increase the total right-of-way width from 100 to 215 feet from the proposed SR 53 centerline along both sides of the highway. The project area also includes areas for sediment basins and temporary construction easements.
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