Lessons learned from the Northwest Corridor project are helping the Georgia DOT plan toll lanes along I-285. Photo credit: Georgia DOT
ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Transportation first turned to the private sector to help finance a major road-building project with the Northwest Corridor, adding toll lanes a few years ago to Interstate 75 in Cobb and Cherokee counties.
Now, the DOT wants to take the public-private partnership (P3) concept to a new level using its experience with the Northwest Corridor as a guide.
The agency is looking for a private partner interested in shouldering the lion’s share of the cost of a plan to build toll lanes along the Top End of heavily traveled I-285 from just north of its interchange with I-20 East to just north of the I-20 West interchange. Terms of the deal would be set out in a 50-year contract, up from the current 35-year contract governing the Northwest Corridor.
Georgia DOT planning larger private sector role in toll lanes projects
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ATLANTA A federal judge Wednesday threw out a challenge to portions of Georgia’s controversial new election law as poorly timed.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee ruled that with runoff elections for vacant state House seats in Cobb County and southeast Georgia set for next Tuesday, it’s too late to change provisions in the current law.
“The underlying elections have already occurred, and Plaintiffs seek an order that would mandate different rules for the related runoff elections,” Boulee wrote in an 11-page order.
“Election administrators have prepared to implement the challenged rules, have implemented them at least to some extent and now would have to grapple with a different set of rules in the middle of the election.”