A new highway connecting five cities from Georgia to Mississippi could run through parts of Macon, Byron and Warner Robins.
The Federal Highway Administration's 14th Amendment study has five alternative routes, with costs ranging from just under $300 million to over $7.5 billion.
Five military bases fall along the proposed highway, including Robins Air Force Base, Fort Gordon and Fort Benning.
According to a Highway Administration report, military bases and protected lands will be avoided if possible.
But the report suggests it will be hard to avoid the area around Robins.
Three of the proposed routes pass through Byron.
Byron Mayor Larry Collins says he sees the project as progress. He says, "As long as our society looks at highway transportation as a primary means of moving stuff and people, then we have to have better roads, and we have to have more of them."
The first Byron option is a new interstate system starting from I-75 to State Roads 57 and 247.
The second alternative is a mix between interstates and highways from I-75 to I-16 near the Ocmulgee National Monument and east to US 80.
The third option for Byron includes upgrading highway systems following State Road 49 to Avondale Mill Road and building a road extension from I-16 to SR 247.
Doug Hecox with the Federal Highway Administration says no definite plans have been made to start the highway project. He says the Georgia Department of Transportation still has to weigh the costs and benefits of each route before moving forward.