MOULTRIE, Ga. — It’s a routine question in coffee shops and over backyard fences: How are we coming along on four-laning of State Highway 133?

The overall project eventually will link Valdosta to Albany coming through Moultrie.  At the moment, construction work is being done only between Moultrie and Valdosta. Those who travel this route experience weaving in and out of orange traffic cones, smelling fresh asphalt  and hearing the whine of raw roadbed beneath their tires.

Many Moultrie motorists say they go down Highway 133 and turn off at the Sand Hill Road crossing and then go to Hahira to pick up I-75 if they are going to Valdosta. Some choose to take Tallokas Road down to Sand Hill where they turn left and eventually cross over Highway 133 and head on to Hahira to avoid the construction.

Juanita Birmingham, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation in Tifton, gave The Moultrie Observer the following update on the project:

• In Brooks County, that section from Road 276/Troupville Road to County Road 10/Pauline Church Road (6.67 miles) was completed on Dec. 5, 2016. Construction costs was $22.8 million.

• From Pauline Church Road to County Road 1/Old Quitman-Adel Road (5.43 miles) is still under construction. The work is 46 percent complete and is expected to be finished on Oct. 31, 2018. That work began on June 9, 2016 at a cost of $28.3 million.

• A section from Old Quitman-Adel Road in Brooks County to County Road 256 in Colquitt County is under construction. This is 9.63 miles and is 51 percent complete. It is expected to be finished on May 15, 2018 at a cost of $35.2 million. That work began on Feb. 10, 2016.

• A section in Colquitt County from County Road 256 to County Road 388/Hawthorne Drive (7.86 miles) is under construction with a projected completion date of June 30, 2018 at a cost of $31.1 million. That project began on Dec. 17, 2015. It is 55 percent complete.

• There is a completed section from Hawthorne Drive to State Route 35/East Moultrie Bypass (Spence Field section, 4.55 miles) at a cost of $16.5 million. Work was completed on Aug. 26, 2016.

• DOT plans to start work on a Colquitt County section from south of U.S. 319/State Route 35 to County Road 187/MIke Horne Road (8.303 miles) in 2020. Rights of way acquisition should begin in fiscal year 2018. (Fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30 of the following year.) That construction will cost a projected $68 million.

• Work is expected to begin on that section from Mike Horne Road to north of the Colquitt County line (5.07 miles) in fiscal year 2022. Rights of way acquisition should begin in fiscal year 2019. Estimated construction costs is $20.7 million.

• That stretch from north of the Colquitt County line to north of State Route 112 (6.49 miles) is scheduled for work in fiscal year 2020. Rights of way acquisition is to begin in 2018. Projected cost is $28 million.

• In Dougherty and Worth Counties, a section from north of State Route 112 to north of County Road 459/County Line Road (3.73 miles) is scheduled for work in fiscal year 2019 with acquisition of rights of way in 2018. Projected costs is $19 million.

• Construction should begin in Dougherty County from north of County Line Road to north of County Road 540/Holly Drive (8.11 miles) in fiscal year 2020 with rights of way acquisition to begin in 2018. Projected construction costs is $44.4 million.