Troup County will get state assistance to widen and resurface Gabbettville Road, which wound up in the worst condition among the seven county roads that were used as haul routes during construction of the Kia Motors auto assembly plant in West Point.

Troup will receive $95,416 from the state and pay for the rest with the 1 percent countywide special-purpose local-option sales tax.

State aid contracts usually provide funds for about 50 percent of the cost. But the county tentatively plans to do the work itself and get more bang for the buck.

“Doing it in-house would be a lot more cost-efficient, and we may end up with more like a 70-30 or 60-40 split,” county engineer James Emery said Tuesday.

The resurfacing and 4-foot widening will begin this spring and take a couple of months, Emery said.

Another haul route, Bartley Road, will be resurfaced by C.W. Matthews Contracting with federal stimulus funds, and the other haul routes – Shoemaker, Webb, Webb-Bartley, Davidson and Warner roads – will be resurfaced under the state’s Local Assistance Road Program.