GDOT, city won’t change schedules for 2 projects that will disrupt South Buckhead’s traffic this summer

The Georgia Department of Transportation and city of Atlanta Department of Public Works essentially thumbed their noses at several Buckhead neighborhoods today by refusing to change the construction schedules for two major summer projects that have the potential of putting south Buckhead in a traffic gridlock for several months—in one case two years.

Members of the Loring Heights and Brookwood neighborhoods hoped their meeting at the Masonic Temple on Peachtree Road today  with Georgia Department of Transportation officials would result in delaying conflicting Buckhead road projects  this summer.

  

But at the end of the meeting, residents were unsuccessful in putting the brakes on the plans of GDOT and the city who held fast to their concurrent construction schedules to the two projects, according to reports by the Buckhead Reporter and Buckhead Patch. 

The two projects will both begin in the July and August timeframe and will disrupt east-west traffic between Northside Drive and Peachtree Road for all of the summer, with the Northside Drive project continuing for 24 months.  

GDOT and city of Atlanta officials did promise to be responsive to residents’ concerns and complaints and to attempt to provide enough detour  and directional signage to minimize traffic headaches.

The meeting was held just across Deering Road from the Amtrak Station, the site of one of two projects. Residents have been  baffled why that project was scheduled at the precise time that work will begin on a two-year water line and roadwork project on nearby Northside Drive.


For BuckheadView's earlier story of the meeting of GDOT and city officials with the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods last week, go to http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4861583808069812520#editor/target=post;postID=6785762610417243244. 

For the Buckhead Reporter’s story on the Wednesday meeting go to /http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2012/06/20/buckhead-council-of-neighborhoods-loring-heights-cant-sway-gdot/.

For Buckhead Patch’s coverage of the meeting go to /http://buckhead.patch.com/articles/buckhead-transportation-meeting-results-changes-needed.