North Perimeter Contractors came in with the hands-down best financial proposal of the four companies vying to be selected to rebuild the interchange at Ga. 400 and I-285 – and this appears to be the reason the state selected the company.
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GDOT to name team to rebuild Ga. 400/I-285; MARTA, GRTA plan to use new roadway
The Georgia Department of Transportation on Thursday is slated to announce the apparent winner of the competitive bid to build the most expensive highway project in state history – the $1.1 billion reconstruction of the interchange at Ga. 400 and I-285.
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Peachtree Road’s proposed bike lanes draw big crowd to meeting
A public information meeting on the state proposal to add bike lanes to a portion of Peachtree Road in Buckhead drew a large crowd Thursday that seemed evenly divided among proponents and opponents.
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MARTA, GDOT convene meetings to report progress on transportation plans
MARTA and the Georgia Department of Transportation are advancing efforts to improve mobility around the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange and northward along Ga. 400.
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52 miles of managed lanes being built with plans to serve expanded transit bus system
In a new approach to road construction in Georgia, the state is adding 52 miles of managed lanes in metro Atlanta with the intention of using them to serve a growing number of transit buses filled with passengers.
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GDOT to name firm that will widen Ga. 400 in Forsyth County, a job that factored in transportation debate
The state Department of Transportation expects to announce Friday the name of the company that will widen Ga. 400 in Forsyth County, a project that was central to the debate over the transportation funding bill the Legislature approved this year.
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Savannah port to handle more freight, but how will roads, rails handle extra load?
One aspect of the Savannah Harbor deepening project has received scant attention: How is all that additional freight to get in and out of the port? New York’s answer to its growing volume is six-hour traffic jams at its terminals.
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New GDOT board member serving north metro Atlanta supports transit
Former House Speaker Mark Burkhalter took the oath of office Thursday to represent the 6th congressional district on the board that oversees the Georgia Department of Transportation.
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A tale of a little bridge that could
A little bridge to be built in the corridor between Atlanta and Chattanooga shows that a little investment can go a long way.
The Tiger Creek replacement bridge could easily be overlooked on the list of 20 contracts GDOT let on May 16. It is less expensive than almost every other project, and is dwarfed by a third of its classmates.
But the Tiger Creek bridge was funded. That fact alone makes it special.
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ARC to Ga. congressional delegation: Help end impasse over transportation funding, GDOT official concurs
The Atlanta Regional Commission’s board of directors voted Wednesday to ask the state’s congressional delegation to resolve the impasse over the nation’s transportation funding program and keep transportation money flowing to Georgia.
The ARC board acted in advance of the July 1 deadline imposed by the state for approval of new transportation projects. The Georgia Department of Transportation swiftly endorsed the resolution approved by ARC’s board.
“We support the action of the ARC,” said Natalie Dale, GDOT’s liaison for government relations. “We’ve had similar conversations with our congressional delegation.”
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TSPLOST rejection hasn’t dampened demand for GDOT road repair funds
Metro Atlanta has not forfeited many state funds to maintain local roads, despite the higher local match that results from voter rejection of the transportation sales tax in 2012, according to an analysis of figures in a new state report.
The figures seem to alleviate concerns that routine road maintenance could suffer because of penalties built into the state law that allowed for the transportation sales tax referendum. GDOT expects to release the new report shortly.
The 10-county region has drawn down $30.3 million from the Georgia Department of Transportation. Eight local governments did not meet the filing deadline and tentatively have left a total of $430,203 in GDOT coffers – money that probably will be distributed elsewhere on a needs basis.
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GDOT’s approval of I-75 project advances concept of managed toll lanes in region, plan due in 2014
The state transportation board has chosen a team to build an $840 million network of managed toll lanes along I-75 and I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties and open it in 2018.
Essentially, the project amounts to building a separate toll road alongside the existing highways. Traffic will flow south during the morning commute and north during the evening. Funding is scheduled from public and private sources.
This new project of managed toll lanes represents the wave of the future in Georgia’s highway program.
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Transportation Camp attracts usual suspects to explore transit advances
Technology is disrupting nearly every aspect of the transportation industry — whether its state-of-the-art robotics revamping the automobile assembly line to a computerized conductor system navigating the railroad tracks or a mobile application providing real-time train and bus locations.
Nearly 250 technologists, planning students, professional experts and other transportation enthusiasts gathered at Georgia Tech for TransportationCamp South, an “unconference” organized by New York City-based Open Plans — a transportation technology and planning startup. Previous launch cities include San Francisco, New York City, Montreal and Washington, DC.
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Buckhead Trail to move ahead with design/build agreement with GDOT
Atlanta made a final step Wednesday, perhaps the conclusive one in terms of creating needed bureaucracy, in the journey to build a new park system along Ga. 400 in Buckhead at minimal public expense.
A proposal that formally brings Georgia’s Department of Transportation into the design and construction of the planned Ga. 400 Greenway Trail was approved unanimously by the Utilities Committee of the Atlanta City Council. The council is expected to approve the deal at its Feb. 4 meeting.
Hopes for the trail are high: “This project has the chance to be an example of inventive use of space that people will fly in to see,” Atlanta Councilman Howard Shook said Wednesday evening.
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Future of Gwinnett County’s airport an issue for Gwinnett to resolve, GDOT official says
The proposed privatization of Gwinnett County’s airport is a local matter in which the state won’t intervene, according to the state official who oversees aviation for the state Department of Transportation.
Gwinnett residents and leaders have wrestled for years with the question of what to do with Briscoe Field, located along Ga. 316 about two miles northeast of Lawrenceville. At the heart of the issue is a debate over whether to allow commercial passenger service – and the impact that would have on neighborhoods near the airport.
Speaking Tuesday to the Rotary Club of Gwinnett County, Carol Comer said the state has no role in deciding or recommending the future of the airport. Comer directs GDOT’s Intermodal Division, which oversees systems including aviation, transit, rail, ports and waterways.
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GDOT report: Transportation sales tax won’t begin to fix state’s freight systems
It turns out that more than $18 billion really doesn’t go as far as it used to.
That’s the amount to be raised within the next decade if voters in July approve the 1 percent sales tax for transportation in each of Georgia’s 12 special tax districts. Even that amount didn’t provide for the majority of road, transit and airport projects initially proposed.
Nor does the sum begin to make a dent in the $18 billion to $20 billion list of upgrades that must be made to the state’s freight handling systems – its highways, railroads, Savannah seaport and airports in Atlanta and Albany, according to a new report from the Georgia Department of Transportation.
