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Passengers board a Contour Airlines flight at Middle Georgia Regional Airport in July of 2025.

Could government shutdown ground planes at Macon airport?

Contour passenger flights out of Middle Georgia Regional Airport receive federal subsidies from a near-empty pot of money
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
October 9, 2025
Paratransit rider Jackie Glover, center, is escorted to her bus following the Aug. 26 meeting of the Macon Transit Authority.

Dozens of paratransit riders will lose bus service

Macon Transit Authority retreating to ADA requirement to only serve those within three-quarter mile of bus routes
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 27, 2025
I-75 Central Corridor Coalition Chair Robert Reichert passes the microphone for introductions in the Aug. 20 meeting focused on an Atlanta to Macon to Savannah rail line.

Luring passenger rail, Pedestrian safety priorities, Steven Fulbright pavilion

Macon-Bibb considers audible crossing signals, education campaign to reduce traffic deaths as I-75 leaders pursue piece of a nationwide passenger rail network
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 22, 2025
A steady stream of traffic turns onto Spring Street from Interstate 16 during morning rush hour. That exit will be closed to southbound traffic from Interstate 75 for about six months for road construction.

I-16 Spring Street exit from southbound I-75 to close six months for GDOT work

District engineer maps out final phase that begins this summer in the nearly $600M ‘transformative’ interchange project
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 30, 2025
Macon-Bibb County crews work on the reversible lane on Vineville Avenue, but parts are getting hard to come by on the obsolete system.

Vineville ‘suicide lane’ near death

GDOT, Macon-Bibb must decide future traffic plan as failing equipment is obsolete
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
March 26, 2025
An enhanced crosswalk and median was added to Montpelier Avenue to improve pedestrian safety.

Macon-Bibb Works to Address Pedestrian Safety Issues

Domonique King, Center for Collaborative Journalism
April 10, 2024
Mika Shills crosses Spring Street in Macon with the red light going her way by about 20 yards from the crosswalk a few hours after another pedestrian was hit and killed near the same spot. Shills is careful about crossing Macon roadways on foot but says nowhere is really safe to do it. "They'll speed up and try to hit you out here," she said.

U.S. DOT declines Macon’s proposal to fix one of its deadliest roads – again

Gray Highway needs $4 million in work, but U.S. DOT twice rejected Macon’s proposals to fix it
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 12, 2024
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