The State Transportation Board approved a plan Thursday aimed at making sure improvements to Georgia highways vital to the movement of freight are adequately funded.

Board members voted unanimously to declare Georgia’s entire interstate highway system and other key highways across the state “freight corridors.” That designation will exempt projects along those highways from a state law requiring that federal transportation funds be divided equally among the state’s 14 congressional districts.

“This is a good step forward for how we can use limited resources,” Toby Carr, director of planning for the Georgia Department of Transportation, told board members before Thursday’s vote.

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