PING!
“Many details — including which company will operate the lanes, how much it will invest and any limits on its tolling authority — have not been determined.”
This is not the way to do thing, but typical of corrupt government.
As a long time GA resident I REALLY wonder how they plan to add a lane/widen 285. There are already numerous places where the existing lanes have essentially zero shoulders.
I almost never have to get on 285, so no worries for me.
Not sure where they are based.
Some things like roads, bridges, military, borders, etc are key functions of government unlike welfare and all this other crap they spend money on. It’s a matter of priorities.
“more toll lanes than the state alone can afford to build”
$27.3 billion state budget for FY 2022
$3.5 trillion infrastructure bill pending
A few years ago, local city sold their waters plant to a private company.
Said it would net the city some coin, improve service, cheaper, with better quality.
The opposite happened. Doubled the cost, harder water, and all repairs stopped.
So if you want the tollway to be even worse, wait till this happens.
Too bad they’re all cashless now.
Workers could have served warm toll house cookies. Chocolate or butterscotch chips.
I-285 is Atlanta’s beltway.
Atlanta’s suburbs sprawl far beyond I-285.
I wonder what Ike would say about the times free American citizens have to pay a toll to drive on parts of the Eisenhower Interstate System.
“Beltway bandit” may get an added meaning.
The state might consider building an outer beltway instead.
The suburbs of Atlanta sprawl and there are possible paths that an outer beltway could be put through.
Just because a private company can milk the public afterward does not mean a toll road is cheaper to build than a public highway.
Fairfax County in Virginia by planning set aside land for its Fairfax County Parkway.
One only needs to look at parking meter and parking garage rates in Shitcago to see how this is going to go ...
If they add more lanes, like the did on I-75 North in Cobb Co., then I don’t see a real downside. You keep all the existing lanes and add the toll lanes. In Gwinnett County they converted the HOV lanes on I-85 to toll lanes, stealing existing lanes and forcing more drivers into fewer lanes which was a mess.