tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935662058758102231.post7740969824847218842..comments2024-03-20T11:21:16.856-04:00Comments on Heneghan’s Dunwoody Blog: Information for I-285 at SR 400 Interchange Reconstruction with Drawings. Meetings Tuesday / Thursday at Dunwoody Baptist.John Heneghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18046846808671417720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935662058758102231.post-63181663630767664652014-08-16T08:46:27.554-04:002014-08-16T08:46:27.554-04:00I've just been informed from a resource at ARC...I've just been informed from a resource at ARC that they have actually budgeted to $950M with all the ancillary "improvements" Regardless of another couple hundred million dollars, it's tying up the better part of our regional long-range plan for about 15-20 years.Joe Seconderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130137634385579597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935662058758102231.post-72126884382441371602014-08-15T23:38:39.658-04:002014-08-15T23:38:39.658-04:00Imagine if someone came to you & said, "H...Imagine if someone came to you & said, "Here's Three Quarters of a BILLION dollars for transportation on the top end of 285". How would you spend it? & BTW, they're going into debt issuing bonds to fund a portion of it. My answer: Ask every major company that RELOCATED along the GA-400 Corridor (Alpharetta, Windward Parkway, Cumming) from other areas in the Metro Atlanta area over the past 20 years to pay for their own infrastructure. Ask every person that moved to a home up in Forsyth & Alpharetta from other areas in the Metro Atlanta to pay for it. Put up a toll at the Fulton/Forsyth county border & have them pay for it. --- Oh yeah, what would I do with that $750M (++ because you know there will be cost overruns)? I'd put it towards a light rail system from the Doraville MARTA station to Cumberland. As Einstein said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over and expecting a different result. Capacity building is a temporary fix. We're subsidizing sprawl for the sake of someone's big home & "lower taxes" further & further out, rewarding uncontrolled growth and feeding congestion.Joe Seconderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130137634385579597noreply@blogger.com