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Austin’s Daily Commentary – City of Augusta’s Downtown Renovation Projects

Author Austin Rhodes
Austin's Daily Commentary

Austin talks about the city of Augusta’s traffic engineering department and their downtown renovation projects.

Austin: Once again, the traffic engineering department for the city of Augusta seems to be missing the mark for business owners downtown. In a meeting last night where more details are revealed about their downtown renovation projects, certainly, upgrades were expected. There were some repairs that were very much needed to be made and utility lines rerun and replaced in some in some areas. But what was particularly distressing was the parking lot layout or the parking space layout in the new areas. They are designing, on purpose green space that will preempt or cancel out parking spaces.

They’re going to lose, on the lower end of Broad Street, about half of their existing parking spaces so they can have new green space. Folks, this is utterly and totally unacceptable. No way in the world should this go on. A number of very important businesses are gonna be impacted. The owners of Luigi’s contacted me last night.

They’re very concerned about this. The plan needs to be revisited. The last thing in the world anybody needs is a reduction in parking spaces on Broad Street. That is absolutely ridiculous. Folks down there have been busting their tail for years to get increased traffic down there.

It’s now started to show up, and then you’re gonna take half the parking away. This has to be stopped. Let’s call on the officials for the city of Augusta to take another look at these plans. Renovations, we understand. Repairs have to be made.

Utility lines upgraded. We know it’s gonna be a mess for a while, but taking away parking spaces, that’s ridiculous, inexcusable, and it’s gotta be brought to an end. Gotta rework that plan. More on this later this afternoon. We’ll see you at three. I’m Austin Rhodes. 95.1 FM News Talk, WGAC.

“Cody” Blaine Jackson is one half of the Kicks Wake Up Krew on Kicks 99, and also serves as the Digital Program Director for Beasley Media Group in Augusta. She’s a Georgia native but currently resides just across the river in South Carolina. She started in the radio industry as a part-time board operator, and moved up through various roles, including on-air positions and program director for multiple stations. Her passions include fitness and anything to do with animals, as she has two fur babies, her dogs Harley and Waylon. Cody likes to write about pets, fitness and Augusta local events.

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