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Economy better, but we still drive less
Traffic is light; can you feel it? Believe it or not, Atlanta drivers have it easy, researchers say, at least compared to 2005. A national report released last week adds to a growing body of evidence of something nearly inconceivable to car-bound Atlantans. Not only has driving failed to increase ...
Atlanta members change on DOT board
The state Department of Transportation’s longtime board delegation from metro Atlanta got a dramatic shake-up in elections last week, with two new members and the ouster of a member who has represented the city for 20 years. In a surprise development, Emory McClinton lost his 5th district seat, representing most ...
DOT was en route with warning signs at time of I-16 crash
A state Department of Transportation crew was alerted to the troubling fog on I-16 Wednesday morning and on its way to put out metal warning signs, according to DOT, when the crew got a call from the sheriff. It was too late to prevent a crash, the workers learned; one ...
Atlanta traffic bad but predictable
The Atlanta area’s freeway congestion may be bad, but at least you can count on it. For the first time, the nation’s premier traffic congestion report, Urban Mobility, has measured and ranked the reliability of American urban freeway traffic. The report, to be released Tuesday, shows the Atlanta area’s drive ...
U.S. Transportation Secretary influenced Georgia
With the departure of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the state of Georgia loses a friendly link to power over federal transportation funds. LaHood, a Republican, and Gov. Nathan Deal served together in Congress. By all accounts their relationship, along with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s links to the Obama administration, ...
Bill would revoke T-SPLOST penalty
As promised, critics of the T-SPLOST, the law that set up last summer’s regional transportation referendums, have proposed legislation to chip away at it. The referendums — which asked voters to approve a 1 percent sales tax for transportation projects — passed in three of the state’s 12 regions. On ...
Road contractors shower governor with campaign donations
After the regional sales tax for transportation crashed and burned last year, Gov. Nathan Deal said he would set priorities for major road projects. Road builders, civil engineering firms and others involved in infrastructure projects responded by giving the governor about $50,000 in campaign contributions in the second half of ...
Legislature not likely to do much for transit
For metro Atlanta transit passengers and drivers, hopes are low that the Legislature will offer much help funding additional rides or roads when it comes into session in January. The most lawmakers might do for metro transportation is to stave off collapse of the Xpress commuter bus service. Xpress is ...
After T-SPLOST defeat, transit plans slowed, but not stopped
Despite this summer’s failure of the regional T-SPLOST referendum, there’s still one place where big new mass transit plans are cooking: the city of Atlanta. A new streetcar line is under construction and likely to open in 2014. The planned rail component of the Beltline, far from sinking to oblivion ...
I-75/I-575 toll lanes out to bid
The state has asked for bids, and is already receiving some, on the project to build optional toll lanes alongside I-75 and I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties, according to Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Keith Golden. It is the largest transportation project by far in state history. If all ...
Poll shows leaders have work cut out on trust issue
Metro Atlantans have a stern warning for public officials: We don’t trust you, and we won’t pay to fix some of our region’s biggest problems until we do. Many government officials say they’ve already heard the message, and some are putting more time and energy into public relations and trying ...
Poll: Trust the big roadblock to regional solutions
Metro Atlanta residents want to tackle the region’s mobility crisis — and they’re willing to pay to do it, a new poll commissioned by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows. The problem is they don’t trust elected officials and bureaucrats to come up with efficient solutions. Majorities of respondents said government wastes ...
Ga. 400 interchange will get boost, but how much?
The 200,000 drivers who stop and go each day through the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange, it turns out, are lucky. Sort of. Following the failure of the T-SPLOST transportation referendum in metro Atlanta last summer, the only project singled out for protection by Gov. Nathan Deal was that interchange. In doing ...
Peachtree Street bridge to get enhancements
If you’re traveling through Atlanta, prepare to see Peachtree Street up in lights. The state Transportation Board is poised to declare the Downtown Connector a gateway to the state, and to help fund a makeover to pretty up some of the high-profile bridges that pass over it. The first two ...
Try to avoid I-285 repaving project this weekend
There’s one more weekend of paving misery for northern Perimeter drivers this year, but it’s going to be a doozy. The I-285 repaving project is scheduled to stall traffic on the northwest Perimeter this weekend for the last time before taking a winter break, according to the state Department of ...
Fulton elections operations riddled with glitches
Voting in Fulton County was a “debacle” on Tuesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp said, with residents casting perhaps thousands of unnecessary paper ballots that are likely to take days to count. “They’ve got a heck of a lot of work to do,” Kemp said, noting widespread complaints that ...
Polling troubles in Fulton County
Despite efforts to stabilize Fulton County’s elections system in time for Tuesday’s vote, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office is “extremely concerned” at reports of problems at the polls in the county Tuesday morning, according to a spokesman for the office, Jared Thomas. The issues are not isolated to one ...
On the road to love with the DOT
Will you ever love the state Department of Transportation?The DOT’s board has a bad feeling about the immediate answer to that, following the resounding failure of July’s T-SPLOST referendum in most of Georgia.But it has hopes.So on Monday, 12 of the 13 board members trooped out to Macon for a ...
I-285 weekend roadwork jams continue
Drivers should avoid the northern Perimeter again this weekend if they can, as the state continues its paving job on the northwest section of I-285. Lane and ramp closures will dot the area, and each of them may back up traffic quite a ways. Sorry to say, but if your ...
Avoid roadwork, repaving on I-285
Roadwork is expected to blight travel plans all over metro Atlanta’s highways this weekend, including on I-75, I-85 and Ga. 400. But perhaps the biggest pain will continue to be I-285, the highway that touches drivers in every direction. Re-paving on the north end continues this weekend. WHAT ARE THEY ...
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