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NOV. 28 – DEC. 11, 2014 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net
Residents: New lanes should improve traffic on Ga. 400 BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Miguel Cornejo remembers when only two lanes of Ga. 400 carried traffic in each direction, north and south. He recalls the wide grass median that divided the road then. He and his family moved into the Spalding Woods subdivision in 1981. His house stands across the street from houses that back up to the highway. In the early JOE EARLE days, he said, when his Art Reid looks at new plans for a Ga. 400 collector wife drove their children to swim practice, “she and distributor road system proposed at the Georwas the only one going gia Department of Transportation’s open house on north” on Ga. 400. Nov. 18 at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church. Things have changed. The two lanes of Ga. 400 headed MARTA station. in either direction became four, then five GDOT officials hope to start construcduring the peak travel hours. The road’s tion on the project in 2016 and complete shoulders are now open to commuter trafthe job in 2019. fic, he said. Nowadays, traffic on Ga. 400, Cornejo welcomes the work. “The Cornejo said, is “unbelievable.” project itself, I’m all for it,” he said. “Ga. “When I walk my dog on this [nearby] 400’s intersection with I-285 is a mess. Ga. road,” he said, pointing to a side street near 400 needs that project. Ga. 400 is a big his home, “I use earphones in my iPod and parking lot at peak hours.” I can feel Ga. 400 right at my feet.” Other Sandy Springs residents at the That’s why he joined more than 200 meeting agreed. “My sense is it’ll be an imresidents Nov. 18 who gathered at St. Jude provement,” said Ronny Broyles, who lives the Apostle Catholic Church to look over and works at locations along the stretch of the proposed changes the Georgia DepartGa. 400. ment of Transportation plans for a stretch “Any effort they make will be an imof Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs and for the provement,” Broyles said. “Sometimes, interchange between Ga. 400 and I-285. it’s a nightmare. These feeder lanes will be Cornejo wanted to tell GDOT officials food for the folks who work [nearby]. ... they needed to install noise barriers beThis is progress.” tween the road and his neighborhood. Art Reid, who said he’s lived in the “I’m saying they needed sound barriSpalding Drive area 20 years, said the ers a long time ago,” he said. “They need work “seems to be necessary.” sound barriers all the way to Northridge Still, he’s not looking forward to the [Road]. Most of these areas do not have construction. “I think it’s going to be a big sound barriers.” mess until it improves this,” he said. “I’m Other residents offered other suggesoptimistic long term.” tions or questions for the GDOT officials The changes, he said, should help hanwho unveiled new wall maps of a prodle the traffic related to new office and posed network of “collector and distribuapartment developments proposed in the tor” roads they propose building to get loarea. “I believe this all seems to be necescal traffic off Ga. 400 in hopes of easing sary in order to accommodate what I pertraffic tie-ups. ceive is going to happen,” he said. Their plans for the collector/distributor Leon Folsom was encouraged by what system call for about $330 million of conhe saw when he studied the GDOT drawstruction along Ga. 400 from Hammond ings of the new interchange. He came to Road to just north of Spalding Drive. the public meeting to find out how much The project ties into a major transformaland in his neighborhood would be taken tion planned for the I-285/Ga. 400 interfor the widening of I-285, he said. “The change. The overall project is expected to answer seems to be zero,” he said. “It’s hard cost about $1 billion. to imagine widening a highway and not GDOT officials showed some protaking land. It would be nice to hold them posed changes in the collector/distributor to that.” system since their last public presentation But his wife, Janet, found the new colearlier this year. The new plans, GDOT lector/distributor network would cut off spokeswoman Marlo Clowers said, add loher neighborhood’s access to I-285 and cal traffic lanes alongside Ga. 400, include would mean it would be a longer drive for a “diverging diamond” interchange at Abher to get to shops on Roswell Road. ernathy Road and a new design for the “It’s only time,” she said with a shrug. “flyover bridge” exit for the North Springs “What can I say?” DUN