The Georgia Department of Transportation provides a detailed breakdown of the project. Additionally, streets within District 8 to be repaved.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
One of the most important and long anticipated projects about to begin in Buckhead is the Northside Drive Safety Improvement Project, which has now been coupled with the $14 million Department of Watershed Management water main replacement project. Both projects will be overseen and constructed by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) and were combined since the schedule for the water main work coincided with the one for the safety improvement project. The department had originally delayed the water line work in order to study alternative scheduling that would minimize disruption to the business community and residents. Now, doing both projects at the same time should reduce the impact to residents and lend to greater …
The reversible lane will become a two-way left turn lane.
Northside Drive's reversible lane will become a two-way left turn lane as part of a larger build including sidewalks and one new right turn lane to be finished by June 2014. The conversion covers Northside Drive from I-75 until it connects with the existing four-lane portion of the road below Northside Parkway. The road will remain the same width, three lanes wide, just as it does on a section that is already converted from a reversible lane to a two-way turn lane. The only widening comes from a new right turn lane from Northside Drive northbound onto Collier Road eastbound. Once that's done, there will be no time restrictions on turns anywhere on the intersection. "This right turn lane will eliminate some of the queueing" that delays …
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Northside Dr NW & Northside Pkwy NW, Atlanta, GA
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Northside Dr NW & I-75, Atlanta, GA
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