More from Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones of Georgia Tech:
Even Buford Highway, she says, could be transformed with medians, trees and buildings set closer to the road. Changes that are known to slow traffic. But outside of the ivory tower, change does not come easily. Or quickly.And what Lowndes County has sent in for T-SPLOST funding includes:Last year Georgia spent more than two billion dollars on transportation, but only a tiny fraction, less than 1 percent, went specifically to pedestrian safety.
- $10 million to widen New Bethel Road from 2 lanes to 5 lanes to Lanier County
- $8 million to widen old US 41 North
- $3 million to widen Val Del Road
- $3 million for sprawl on Cat Creek Road.
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