Wouldn’t want to do that.
The State Transportation Board voted Tuesday to yank millions of dollars from road construction and maintenance rather than lay off state workers to balance a $190 million deficit.
Gena Evans, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, gave the board a list of options for erasing the red ink, including laying off [...]

Travis Fain with the Macon Telegraph has all the details. Here’s the interesting part:
This new protest group, called the Citizens Coalition for Common Sense Interstates in Macon, does not have a design alternative to suggest, Coalition Chairman James Webb said Monday. And group members agree the interchange should be upgraded, he said. But they [...]

Some moron complained to the City of Atlanta and the DOT that “Men at Work” signs are sexist and must be changed. Naturally the government told the lady they agreed instead of telling her to get back in the kitchen and take her shoes off — the truly appropriate response to this silliness.
The change [...]

The charges were made against Garland Pinholster and Billy Langdale.
I don’t know much about Billy Langdale, but Pinholster is a former GOP Rep. So you guys who say I never criticize Republicans please take note, I’m criticizing a Republican. Pinholster is a jerk for behaving this way and I think he should pay the [...]

The DOT’s HERO trucks will give you free gas.
With gasoline in many parts of the Atlanta area topping $4 a gallon, the DOT roadside assistance crews are seeing a spike in the number of motorists who run out of fuel.
“The majority of them probably figured they could make it to an exit,” Conley said. “Due [...]

Steve Farrow, who served in the state Senate with now-Gov. Sonny Perdue, won election to the state Transportation Board Thursday.
Farrow on Thursday told his legislators he will report to them. “You are my boss, and that’s the way I will look on this job,” he said. In an interview afterward, he said that, [...]

State Transportation Commissioner Gena Abraham and former Transportation Board Chairman Mike Evans are engaged to be married, Georgia DOT board members announced today.

Gena Abraham is on the case.
She told an audience of lobbyists and construction executives last week at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation luncheon, “We are facing a transportation-funding crisis.”
It’s no secret that Georgia’s growth has sparked a need for more transportation capacity - something she says can’t be limited just to roads. That need was [...]

Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson says that he is hopeful that a date to elect a new GDOT Board Member will soon be here, as the Gainesville Times reports.
“He (Cagle) and I have both had busy travel schedules,” Richardson said. “When the session ends, we have the pent-up demand from everybody. So, we’ve both been [...]

AJC:
The Georgia Department of Transportation has refused to make public a workplace sexual harassment complaint against Garland Pinholster, who briefly served in the past week as chairman of the state transportation board. The Journal-Constitution is disputing the DOT’s contention on the legal issue.
What GDOT needs is a visit from the Sexual Harassment Panda.

…and talks with Georgia Daily Digest’s Randy Lewis:
Ms. Abraham, an engineer who led the Georgia Building Authority, had been praised as someone who could bring change to an agency that had suffered for decades under mismanagement, corruption and political pandering.
“On the scandal meter, this doesn’t make my needle stand up too much,” said Randy Lewis, [...]

Pinholster accused of sexual harassment:
The chief counsel for the DOT confirms that a complaint was received last week which is now under investigation.
The DOT’s lawyer will not confirm that the subject of the investigation is Garland Pinholster — who moved up to acting chairman of the agency when the chairman Mike Evans resigned last week. [...]

I guess the road is a little more bumpy with Mike Evans gone:
The board voted 8-3 in favor of a written reprimand, citing Abraham for failing to report her relationship with former board chairman Mike Evans in a “timely fashion.”

The Forsyth County News is reporting that after Thursday’s GDOT Board meeting, Mike Evans “took Abraham to Cumming to meet his ex-wife and two daughters.”
As a friend just pointed out to me: “What, the DOT Board Meeting was so much fun, what better way to cap off a perfect day than with a visit to [...]