Gwinnett seeks to upgrade transit service
Gwinnett County will ask the state for $12.4 million to help upgrade its transit system.
Last week the county Board of Commissioners approved plans to seek seven grants from the State Road and Tollway Authority. The grants would help replace 28 local transit buses and buy 5 additional buses to expand service.
The money also would help improve the Sugarloaf Mills park-and-ride lot and resurface the Indian Trail Road and Hewatt Road lots. It would help build two new lots along Ga. 316 to serve the Lawrenceville and Dacula areas. And it would help replace the transfer center at Gwinnett Place Mall.
Gwinnett would pitch in $3.4 million for the improvements.
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David Wickert writes about the state budget, finance and voting issues. Previously, he covered local government and politics in Gwinnett and Fulton counties. Before moving to Atlanta, he worked at newspapers in Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington.
