Late Edition: 4 Plans to Relieve Traffic Congestion
Published November 29th, 2007
The Atlanta Business Chronicle is reporting this evening that the Transit Planning Board has decided on four mass transit projects that will cost $54 billion and are to be completed by 2030. The catch phrase is that it will cost an Atlanta resident a dollar per day. The point to the traffic projects is to broaden the current transportation system by implementing alternatives like commuter rail, expanding the MARTA network, and streetcars. Below is an excerpt of the four transit projects.
- extend MARTA’s existing heavy rail lines to Windward Parkway in north Fulton County, as well as Fulton Industrial Boulevard and a yet-to-be-built intermodal hub near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which already has direct MARTA service
- launch commuter rail service from downtown Atlanta and the intermodal hub to destinations as far away as Gainesville and Athens to the northeast, Peachtree City and Senoia to the southwest, Lovejoy and Griffin to the southeast, and Bremen and Douglasville to the west
- fund the construction of the Atlanta Beltline, the Peachtree Street streetcar, and light rail connections to commercial centers in the cities of Atlanta and Decatur and in Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Fulton counties
- add bus rapid transit service along Interstate 20 east to Conyers, I-75 south to McDonough, I-285 east to Doraville and I-285 west to Cumberland-Galleria
Tags: congestion, infrastructure, traffic, transit, transportation
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November 30th, 2007 at 9:16 am