If an interstate makes its way through Columbus, Macon and Augusta, it will be in part thanks to the efforts of Frank Lumpkin IV.
The 23-year-old, second-year University of Georgia law student began lobbying city leaders in Columbus about Interstate 14 as a high schooler in 2017. Four years later, he’d spend a month in Washington D.C., making the same pitch to U.S. Senators.
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz added an amendment to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill making portions of the proposed route, including the Georgia leg, a high priority corridor. The bill passed the Senate and is now awaiting approval in the House of Representatives before being signed into law by President Joe Biden.
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