Downtown Athens’ Clayton Street streetscape project could be mostly completed by April, according to a revised timeline posted on Athens-Clarke County’s website. When it’s finished, a stretch of Clayton from Lumpkin Street to Thomas Street will have two traffic lanes instead of three, but wider sidewalks with room for more pedestrians and more outdoor seating for restaurants. Voters approved a bigger version of the project in 2004, but even after Athens-Clarke officials put the project up for bids twice, the government got just one bid, at three times the allocated budget. Planners cut out some elements of the original plan, and voters approved adding $6.9 million in T-SPLOST sales-tax pennies to the 2004 SPLOST’s $6.8 million. ACC also took some … Continue reading Clayton Street Project Scheduled to Wrap Up This Spring