Atlanta

[ChiMilNet]

A link to that article would've been nice.

Found this if it helps. https://www.henrycountyga.gov/341/Transportation-Projects

[Georgia]

Contractor on the westside 20-285 interchange project already has 3 piers out of the ground and one of them has the pier cap formed up.  Making good progress on what looks to be the 20W to 285S movement.

[Tom958]

The infuriatingly stupid recently-replaced signs along the GA 141 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard freeway have been addressed if not fully corrected. The biggest issue with them was the inexplicable addition of the mainline route number-- GA 141-- on most of the offramp signage, as shown here. In that particular location, the EXIT ONLY arrow is also wrong, but they neglected to correct it while they were up there greening over the 141 NORTH. At this one, the 141 NORTH was also greened out, but EXIT wasn't added to the distance legend and the erroneous GA 140 NORTH wasn't corrected (in fact, GA 140 is an east-west route which extends in both directions from the interchange and thus shouldn't have a cardinal direction at all). And the embarrassingly bad signage at the 141-Peachtree Boulevard split wasn't addressed at all.

In addition, the beloved but tragically deteriorated all-caps button copy signage on the frontage roads has finally been replaced. The new stuff looks slightly crappy, but it's still a huge improvement. That said, the replacement for this one and its counterpart downstream don't have the black-on-yellow EXIT ONLY plaques they should. It's just one damned thing after another.

[Tom958]

Sorry-not-sorry for the double post: Also on Peachtree Industrial in Gwinnett, a third northbound lane has been added on the right and is nearly ready to open. It extends from the north side of the Holcomb Bridge Road intersection to Medlock Bridge Road, which isn't a very good place to end it. Also, the obvious place to start the new lane would've been here, where the onramp from the 141 frontage road dumps onto PIB. Still, it should do a lot to address that bottleneck.

[ChiMilNet]

Sorry-not-sorry for the double post: Also on Peachtree Industrial in Gwinnett, a third northbound lane has been added on the right and is nearly ready to open. It extends from the north side of the Holcomb Bridge Road intersection to Medlock Bridge Road, which isn't a very good place to end it. Also, the obvious place to start the new lane would've been here, where the onramp from the 141 frontage road dumps onto PIB. Still, it should do a lot to address that bottleneck.

I drive that stretch on a very regular basis and completely agree that I am baffled that they didn't start the third lane at the merge of the entrance from Jimmy Carter Blvd. I wonder if there are plans to extend the third lane further, at least to Old Peachtree Rd, but ultimately to Pleasant Hill Rd. Further to that, they have been replacing several traffic signal installations. Curious how they aren't at least resurfacing the southbound lanes, as only at the intersections they are being resurfaced. I also wonder if there are plans to add a third lane in that direction, though probably not as badly needed as northbound. The project has been going at a very slow pace, but I am glad it seems to nearly be done. That third lane will help either way.

[Great Lakes Roads]

Here's a video on the visualization of the I-285 Westside Express Lanes...

[Georgia]

about what i expected from the west express lanes. 

[Tomahawkin]

Thats a pretty nice visualization. It seems that the Stub Ramps for IH 20 express lanes means that there will be express lanes on IH 20 around 2035-2040. Is there a modified visualization video for the IH 285 in DeKalb express lanes? The last video of that is around 2+ years old, and those are supposed to start sooner, im guessing late 2027?

[Henry]

Thats a pretty nice visualization. It seems that the Stub Ramps for IH 20 express lanes means that there will be express lanes on IH 20 around 2035-2040. Is there a modified visualization video for the IH 285 in DeKalb express lanes? The last video of that is around 2+ years old, and those are supposed to start sooner, im guessing late 2027?

Agreed, GDOT does make the best presentations. Also, I can see the express lanes getting started by the end of 2027, if not sooner.

[architect77]

Thats a pretty nice visualization. It seems that the Stub Ramps for IH 20 express lanes means that there will be express lanes on IH 20 around 2035-2040. Is there a modified visualization video for the IH 285 in DeKalb express lanes? The last video of that is around 2+ years old, and those are supposed to start sooner, im guessing late 2027?

Agreed, GDOT does make the best presentations. Also, I can see the express lanes getting started by the end of 2027, if not sooner.

With the GA400 rebuild being funded by the private consortium that's somewhat controversial, will the I-285 Express Lane projects use a similar funding mechanism? I hate that there is so much distrust in how these huge projects are being delivered. I just don't like the public hating the state agencies so much.

The cost of I-285 Express Lanes, probably broken into 3 separate projects will probably be triple of the GA400's $4.8B price tag. I am liking the fact that they will use concrete that lasts 50 years without maintenance though.

[ChiMilNet]

Thats a pretty nice visualization. It seems that the Stub Ramps for IH 20 express lanes means that there will be express lanes on IH 20 around 2035-2040. Is there a modified visualization video for the IH 285 in DeKalb express lanes? The last video of that is around 2+ years old, and those are supposed to start sooner, im guessing late 2027?

Agreed, GDOT does make the best presentations. Also, I can see the express lanes getting started by the end of 2027, if not sooner.

With the GA400 rebuild being funded by the private consortium that's somewhat controversial, will the I-285 Express Lane projects use a similar funding mechanism? I hate that there is so much distrust in how these huge projects are being delivered. I just don't like the public hating the state agencies so much.

The cost of I-285 Express Lanes, probably broken into 3 separate projects will probably be triple of the GA400's $4.8B price tag. I am liking the fact that they will use concrete that lasts 50 years without maintenance though.

I realize I sound like a broken record here, but I'll just say it, because I emailed the project team my thoughts, but they really need to take this opportunity to install lighting along the I-285 Perimeter as part of these projects. For such a populated area, these highways should all be lit up much better. If it's a private partnership, why not require them to install and maintain lighting as part of the agreement?