Approximately six more months are needed for the completion of the widening of the Highway 34 Bypass/ Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard between Bullsboro Drive and Carrollton Highway/Temple Avenue, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.
The original completion date for the project was Dec. 31, 2011. A supplemental agreement extended the contract until Jan. 27, said Kimberly Larson, regional spokeswoman for GDOT.
"It will likely require another extension of approximately six months to complete the work," Larson said on Thursday.
"Delays were caused by several plan revisions, erosion control issues, a sub-contractor going out of business during the course of the work and a replacement firm having to be secured to do that work, and weather," Larson said.
"The contractor still has paving, concrete work, signing and marking, and signal work left to do," Larson said.
There will also be additional retaining wall construction, because of the plan revisions.
Larson was asked for additional details about the delay -- and whether the project can truly be completed within six months -- but had not responded as of Friday evening.
Work on the bypass widening project began in August 2009 at the Carrollton Highway end of the bypass segment. In recent months work had progressed to the Bullsboro end.
Once complete, the bypass will be a four-lane divided highway with raised median and bike lanes. Closed circuit televisions and an intersection video detection system will also be installed as part of the project.
The contractor is Sunbelt Structures and the original contract amount was $23,196,355.
The project was divided into two phases: Jefferson Parkway to Carrollton Highway, and Jefferson Parkway to Bullsboro. But the phases are being constructed as one project.
Workers have recently been doing utility work at the intersection of the bypass and Bullsboro Drive.
