Mayor speaks on proposed Watkinsville bypass at council meeting

Mayor speaks on proposed Watkinsville bypass at council meeting

By Jim Thompson | Correspondent Discussion of a proposed bypass around Watkinsville, with three routes now under consideration by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), animated much of the June 17 meeting of the Watkinsville City Council. Mayor Brian Brodrick, repeating the city’s recent decision to tell GDOT that it is “route agnostic” on the proposed bypass — meaning municipal officials are no longer expressing any routing preferenc…