Tag Archives: DOT

Northwest Corridor project’s a go – but it will take a while

The State Transportation Board and the DOT are moving ahead with the Northwest Corridor toll lane project, which will take some time to complete . . .

Tags: Brandon Beach , DOT , Northwest Corridor , State Transportation Board

DOT tries again on Northwest toll project

DOT will ask for bids on the long-discussed Northwest Corridor toll lane project for Cobb and Cherokee counties . . .

Tags: DOT , Nathan Deal , Northwest Corridor , toll lanes

DOT will hold three hearings on multi-modal terminal

State and federal agencies schedule three hearings on the environmental impact of the multi-modal passenger terminal proposed for downtown Atlanta . . .

Tags: DOT , express bus service , MARTA , mass transit , multi-modal passenger terminal , rail lines

Long moves back to DOT post

Todd Long, the transportation planning director for Gov. Nathan Deal, will move to the DOT next month as deputy commissioner . . .

Tags: DOT , Keith Golden , Nathan Deal , regional transportation referendums , Todd Long

DOT signs design contract for Atlanta rail terminal

Atlanta’s long-discussed multi-modal passenger rail terminal moves into the design phase after DOT signs a contract with a development group . . .

Tags: DOT , Downtown Atlanta , multo-modal terminal , passenger rail

DOT moves forward on Fall Line Freeway

The Department of Transportation has three more widening projects underway on different segments of the Fall Line Freeway that extends from Columbus to Augusta . . .

Tags: Bobby Parham , DOT , Fall Line Freeway , State Transportation Board

Board vote allows toll lanes project to move ahead

After a last-minute question from Gov. Nathan Deal is resolved, the State Financing and Investment Commission adopts a resolution clearing the way for a public-private toll lane project in Cobb County . . .

Tags: Cobb County , DOT , Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission , I-75 , Nathan Deal , Sam Olens , toll lanes

Deal’s concerns put hold on toll project

Gov. Nathan Deal gives the red light, at least temporarily, to a billion-dollar toll road project planned for Cobb County’s I-75 corridor . . .

Tags: DOT , GSFIC , I-75 , Nathan Deal , public-private toll project , State Transportation Board

Political Notes – Austin’s running in a race not yet scheduled

State Rep. Rick Austin says he will run in the special election to replace Sen. Jim Butterworth, soon to become the state’s new adjutant general . . .

Tags: Atlanta public schools , Beverly Hall , cheating scandal , DOT , georgia national guard , Jim Butterworth , Rick Austin , Sam Wellborn , Vance Smith

DOT is looking for a leader, again

Vance Smith agrees to resign as commissioner of the embattled Department of Transportation, requiring the search to begin for the agency’s fourth commissioner in the past four years . . .

Tags: DOT , DOT commissioner , Rudy Bowen , State Transportation Board , Vance Smith