Coverage from the AJC on our recent advocacy win to include bike-ped accommodations as part of the billion dollar I-285/GA 400 reconstruction:
“Bicyclists and walkers will have a safe path through a mammoth new interchange soon to be constructed at the intersection of I-285 and Ga. 400, thanks to some dogged community activists.
Georgia Department of Transportation recently committed to provide a multi-use path along both Ga. 400 and I-285.
‘The final design for the path will be determined by the design-build team (which is still to be selected),’ said GDOT spokeswoman Natalie Dale. ‘It will be a separated facility from the roadways. A person would have to scale a tall fence to get from the path to the freeway.’
But these advocates (including but not limited to Bike Walk Dunwoody, Georgia Bikes, Atlanta Bicycle Coalition and PEDS) aren’t finished. Some of them met Wednesday with Georgia Department of Transportation planners to seek a trail extension farther north of the interchange along Ga. 400. They also want a safe path across new bridges on Mount Vernon Road and the redesigned Abernathy Road/Ga. 400 Diverging Diamond Interchange, said Joe Seconder, vice president of Georgia Bikes.”