GDOT releases visualization video of proposed GA 400 express toll lanes (Roswell: transfer to, to live in)

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by citydwelling

I particularly love those BRT stations that show no way for people to get to them.

They'll be using giant slingshots to and from the stations.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by cjseliga

Thought the same thing, must be either pedestrian bridges over the highway or tunnels under the highway?

That's for MARTA for build, not GDOT.

[bellhead]

? how is this going to effect times for the express buses? Will they be allowed in these lanes?

I am moving to Atlanta this spring & am strongly considering the 400 artery.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bellhead

? how is this going to effect times for the express buses? Will they be allowed in these lanes?

I am moving to Atlanta this spring & am strongly considering the 400 artery.

Yes, Xpress bus, local bus, and BRT will be allowed to use these lanes. That is the silver lining of spending $1.8B on these things.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Yes, Xpress bus, local bus, and BRT will be allowed to use these lanes. That is the silver lining of spending $1.8B on these things.

Must be hair-thin.

Also looked at one of GDOT's layout boards and some of my SO's neighbors' homes are about to get ripped out for the lanes south of Spalding.

[citydwelling]

I feel for the people who are losing their homes to this clusterflck but honestly the people of North Fulton are getting what they asked for; they voted in these retrograde politicians and this is the result.

[cqholt]

At it's widest part (North Spring Station) it will be 19 lanes wide
That's a lot of land lost to cars.

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by cqholt

At it's widest part (North Spring Station) it will be 19 lanes wide
That's a lot of land lost to cars.

Yeah. It really looks alot like Katy Freeway and also I-30 in DFW.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Not something we should be duplicating. Travel times have gotten worst on the Katy Freeway since widening it to the widest freeway in the WORLD!
Reducing congestion: Katy didn’t | City Observatory

False comparison. Katy Freeway population has been exploding since before the widening. I don't remember the exact numbers, but when it opened, it knocked something like 15 minutes off the outbound commute to Katy from before the construction started. And that doesn't count having the HOT/HOV lane options instead of a single contraflow HOV. And the non-peak hour traffic is vastly improved all the time. It used to be you avoided Katy Freeway on Saturdays and mid-days during the week and most of Sundays too.

Its like saying the "freeing the freeways project" was bad because traffic is worse now than it was 25 years ago when population has doubled and next to nothing has been done in those 25 years.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bu2

False comparison. Katy Freeway population has been exploding since before the widening. I don't remember the exact numbers, but when it opened, it knocked something like 15 minutes off the outbound commute to Katy from before the construction started. And that doesn't count having the HOT/HOV lane options instead of a single contraflow HOV. And the non-peak hour traffic is vastly improved all the time. It used to be you avoided Katy Freeway on Saturdays and mid-days during the week and most of Sundays too.

Its like saying the "freeing the freeways project" was bad because traffic is worse now than it was 25 years ago when population has doubled and next to nothing has been done in those 25 years.

Was the explosion in growth encouraged or directed to that corridor because of the expansion project?
The article shows it only took a few years for traffic to get worst than before, not 25 years.
Texas spent $2.8B to relieve congestion and now it's worst than ever. Could that have been better spent by running transit along the corridor? Would that have relieved congestion more?