Making Transit Work Across Georgia As Investment in and Support of MARTA Grows, State Leaders Look at Plans for a Cohesive Regional System By Allison Floyd Rhonda Briggins watches how her 34-year-old niece gets around town and knows that public transit will soon become a more critical part of Georgia’s transportation system. “She takes two buses and a train to get to work. She gets…
The Untold Story of the Rapid Response Behind the I-85 Rebuild By Lori Johnston The heads of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), MARTA and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) are on a text-friendly basis. That’s the first thing you need to know to understand how the Interstate 85 (I-85) bridge collapse moved from crisis to recovery in such a coordinated fashion and…
Engineering the Home of the Braves An Inside Look at the New SunTrust Park and The Battery Atlanta By Lori Johnston The problems were numerous. Pipelines needed to be moved. A pond drained. Traffic and parking plans both designed and implemented. And all this in one of the tightest timelines, given a…
