Georgia will see work on vital transportation projects ramp up quickly now that President Obama has finalized with his signature passage of a long-awaited federal transportation bill, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation’s deputy commissioner.

Mike Dover told Albany and Dougherty County commissioners during a joint meeting of those two bodies with the local state legislative delegation Monday that some $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion in federal funding will be added to a proposed $750 million in additional transportation funds that will be included in the department’s Fiscal 2016 budget. Dover said the additional funding will come from the recent increase in state gasoline taxes.

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