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The Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) plans to open the $126 million Brampton Road Connector in Savannah on July 15, the final part of a plan to establish a cargo beltway in Savannah.<\/p>\n
The four-lane highway will link the Port of Savannah\u2019s Garden City Terminal\u2019s Gate 3 directly to the interstate system, giving truck drivers faster access to the port and a more streamlined route to inland markets. The route eliminates truck traffic in local neighborhoods and removes at-grade rail crossings. <\/p>\n
\u201cImproving the mobility of freight traffic from the port and increasing safety for motorists on local streets are key goals for this project,\u201d Georgia DOT Commissioner Russell McMurry, said. \u201cThe Brampton Road Connector accomplishes both simultaneously. The delivery of new freight corridors and upgrades to key interchanges in the Savannah area are great examples of Georgia DOT\u2019s commitment to improving safety on our roadways and mobility for both people and goods.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur trucking community will also achieve faster turntimes at the port with safer routings inland, benefiting Savannah supply chain speeds,\u201d Georgia Ports CEO Griff Lynch said. <\/p>\n
Georgia\u2019s Ports operates the Port of Savannah, a port with 40 ship calls a week, 42 doublestack trains per week and 14,000 truck gate moves daily. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Shutterstock The Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) plans to open the $126 million Brampton Road Connector…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-793835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}