Something feels right in my departure from SaportaReport coinciding with the return of a Swedish musician to a stage near metro Atlanta.
By Guest Columnist CARDEN WYCKOFF, on behalf of the Save Share Peachtree Coalition Organizing Committee At 9:55 a.m. on March 10, minutes after receiving official notice that the Peachtree Shared Space demonstration project was being ...
The Atlanta Regional Commission is conducting an online survey of commuters’ mobility patterns as the beginning of a two-year effort to update the region’s program to improve air quality and reduce traffic congestion.
Atlanta went to market with about $188 million in bonds with terms of a poison pill for the Buckhead City effort the day before the Atlanta City Council met Wednesday to consider the defensive maneuver.
The Atlanta City Council has raised the stakes of the Buckhead City effort by calling a vote in May 2022 for $750 million in funding for roads, greenspace and other infrastructure.
The Atlanta City Council has called two referendums for May 2022 – one to raise up to $350 million with a sales tax to fund transportation improvements, and a $406 million bond package for broad ...
Johns Creek rebuilt a congested intersection in 2020 with proceeds of a sales tax for transportation Fulton County voters have agreed to extend.
Sapelo Island and its state-owned facilities are stark examples of the extent of Georgia’s digital divide. Broadband connection is tenuous at best, and threatened by equipment tumbling into a tidal creek that’s eroding along the ...
Cobb County’s potential sales tax referendum for transit, possibly on the Nov. 8, 2022 ballot, is just part of the discussions CobbLinc and MARTA are conducting of the future of transit in four core counties ...
MARTA’s board of directors took another step Thursday to maintain progress on construction of the Summerhill BRT project, following last week’s public update on the region’s first bus rapid transit route that’s scheduled to open ...
In 2016, a consultant in Arizona submitted to Atlanta’s planning department the population forecast that is driving Atlanta’s proposal to retool the city to house an additional 700,000 residents by 2050.
A boom in truck traffic is expected by 2050 in metro Atlanta and North Georgia. Rail cargo also is likely to increase significantly, and with it congestion at grade-level intersections of train tracks and roads.
By Guest Columnist MIKE DOBBINS, Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner Stop, look and listen. Atlanta’s misguided densification planning and zoning strategy is barreling down the tracks. It has many negatives – ...
The MARTA expansion plan reconfirmed this summer by MARTA’s board includes projects that are to serve a busy vortex of redevelopment in Atlanta – an east-west corridor stretching from Summerhill to West End.
Two mobility studies are underway in Gwinnett County and each has hallmarks of bringing concerns of local communities, and the environment, to the table earlier in the process than they were previously included.
By Guest Columnist TRACY RATHBONE STYF, executive director of the Town Center Community Improvement District Connection. It is a word, feeling and experience that gained a new and perhaps more poignant sense of meaning for each ...
Saturday is the deadline for public comments on the executive summary that provides details on the planned six year, $1.3 billion construction project for a network of express lanes that are to reach along Ga. ...
Georgia’s routine borrowing of $1.1 billion in July is benefitting from the state’s decision to seek private-sector funding for the express lane megaproject to be built along Ga. 400, according to New York credit analysts.
Two important points emerge from Georgia’s plan for a greater role for private partners in future tollways along portions of top end I-285 – the state will set limits on rates a company can charge ...
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