The cost of using the I-85 HOT lane reached a record $4.70 during Wednesday morning's commute, surpassing the previous record of $4.55 set on Monday and matched again on Tuesday.
According to the State Road and Tollway Authority, the new benchmark to drive the 16-mile stretch of I-85 in the HOT lane was set at 7:11 a.m. Wednesday.
The price climbed steadily during Wednesday’s morning commute, from $1.90 at 6:05 a.m. to $4.55 at 7:01, then $4.70 ten minutes later.
The HOT lane toll is set on a sliding scale depending on the level of congestion on I-85 and in the HOT lane.
According to the SRTA website, “when HOT lanes become too congested, the price increases and this in turn reduces the number of cars entering the lane.” MIKE MORRIS
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A Gainesville man has been convicted of vehicular homicide in the death of a woman who fell out of the Jeep he was driving on Ga. 400.
Colon Louis Hartzler, 45, was convicted Friday of vehicular homicide and DUI, the Gainesville Times reported. Police said Hartzler was driving under the influence of alcohol when passenger Jenna Fitzgerald fell out of the vehicle as he made a left turn onto Carlisle Road from Ga. 400 south in Dawson County. The incident happened on June 25, 2010.
After falling out of the Jeep, which had no passenger side door, Fitzgerald was hit by a minivan, the Times reported.
Sentencing is set for March 22. JOEL PROVANO
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Dr. Ignacio Sanz, MD, an internationally renowned immunologist, has been named Emory’s 13th Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and director of Emory’s Kathleen B. and Mason I. Lowance Center for Human Immunology. He will also teach medicine and pediatrics at Emory's medical school and will be director of the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine. He will start at Emory on April 1. Sanz is an expert in autoimmune B-cell diseases with a special focus on systemic lupus erythematosus. CARRIE TEEGARDIN
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