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Senate leader tells Wentworth council DOT study funded, short session expected in spring
Summary
Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger told the Wentworth Town Council Jan. 6 that he helped secure $2 million for DOT engineering studies to break long highway upgrades into fundable segments, outlined DMV fixes tied to Real ID backlogs and said the legislative short session will likely begin in April or May.
Senator Phil Berger, president pro tem of the North Carolina Senate, told the Wentworth Town Council on Jan. 6 that state leaders are working to turn long-planned highway upgrades into smaller projects that can be funded and planned more quickly.
Berger said he "was able to find $2,000,000, to get to DOT to fund the study that is in the process of being done as we speak," describing the money as intended to pay for engineering work that would allow projects such as upgrades on US 220 and US 29 to be split into smaller segments and placed into the State Transportation…
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