GDOT To Host Open House For Ga. 400 Collector, Distributor Lanes

The Georgia Department of Transportation on Tuesday will hold two public information open houses on its plan to construct collector/distributor lanes on S.R. 400.

The open houses will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 18. Both will be held in the Ministry Hall of St. Jude Catholic Church at 7171 Glenridge Drive in Sandy Springs.

GDOT is proposing roughly six miles of operational improvements along S.R. 400 and approximately 4.3 miles along I-285 in the vicinity of the interchange including:

• Construction of barrier-separated collector-distributor lanes northbound and southbound along S.R. 400 from I-285 to Spalding Drive, as well as, eastbound and westbound along I-285 from Roswell Road to Ashford-Dunwoody Road;
• Reconstruction of existing ramps between the two;
• Building new flyover bridges and reconstructing and widening existing bridges in the interchange area; and
• Construction of grade-separated, braided ramps (where one ramp crosses over another) in the vicinity of Ashford-Dunwoody Road and Roswell Road to eliminate conflicts between traffic entering and exiting Georgia 400 and traffic entering and exiting the Roswell Road and Ashford Dunwoody interchanges.

The improvements to both SR 400 and I-285 will be achieved through one design-build finance, public-private partnership. A request for qualifications was advertised by GDOT on Nov. 3, 2014.

GDOT is seeking public comments on the proposal. Comments will accept at the open houses and written statements can be submitted until Dec. 4, 2014, to:

Ms. Hiral Patel, P.E.,
State Environmental Administrator
Georgia Department of Transportation
600 West Peachtree Street, NW – 16th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30308

For more information on the project, contact GDOT Project Manager Marlo Clowers, P.E. at mclowers@dot.ga.gov.

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