Thursday, July 12, 2007
News Toll lanes and grammar
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 1:29 PM
Last month, the Georgia DOT quietly let slip that future lanes built on metro Atlanta highways would likely be high-occupancy toll lanes that could be used by drivers willing to pay a fee to sidestep the rush-hour crawl.
This week, the State Road and Tollway Authority wasted no time in rolling out an expanded version of a plan to build toll lanes along I-85 through much of Gwinnett County. The current plan calls for 28.5 miles of toll lanes, at a cost of more than $300 million -- nearly a third of the $1.1 billion available in federal grants for such projects.
A Gwinnett Daily Post article quotes Tollway Authority spokeswoman Lisa Thompson as saying, "I'm so excited about this, I cannot hardly stand it."
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