Gage County hoping to tap RAISE grant program, for transportation upgrades

BEATRICE – An application to a federal transportation grant program is close to being submitted by Gage County. Officials will try to tap the Rebuilding American Infrastructure With Sustainability and Equity Program….more commonly known as RAISE.

Gage County Supervisor Emily Haxby says a series of eight public input and outreach sessions have been completed…..the last of which was at Thursday night’s annual Township Association Meeting.

"What we are looking at putting in that grant is the Clatonia to DeWitt Road. What we'll do is mill down that road, recycle the millings, create a new base, Right now it's two eleven-foot lanes...we would go to two twelve-foot lanes, which is the new standard....with nine-inch doweled concrete. We did look into creating shoulders within our existing right-of-ways and we can add and make four-foot shoulders instead of two-foot shoulders...so it should make that easier for transportation. We would look at replacing the two bridges east of DeWitt and the one south of Clatonia with unrated bridges."

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