GDOT looks for solutions to traffic congestion
Traffic on Georgia 400 is only going to get worse, according to state transportation officials. So the Georgia Department of Transportation is conducting a feasibility study to determine the best way to ease the expected congestion.
The study targets a 24-mile stretch of Georgia 400 between I-285 and Highway 20 in Forsyth County. GDOT held a public meeting in Roswell last night, where some residents only heard one option: “toll lane.” Mark McKinnon, spokesman for the agency says,
“One of the possibilities mentioned is a HOT lane or High Occupancy Toll lane. But certainly that is not part of this project yet. That is just simply an idea.”
McKinnon says the study will also examine adding high occupancy vehicle or HOV lanes.
And he says GDOT wants to hear other ideas from the public. To allay fears that the project will be a repeat of the I-85 HOT lane project he says,
“If we did eventually decide to put a toll lane there, it is not to toll an existing lane. It is to add a lane that would become a toll lane.”
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