What Exactly Were the Peachtree Road Improvements?
Some haven't noticed any improvements on Peachtree Road.
Several Atlanta dignitaries attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion of the second phase of the one-mile long Peachtree Road transformation project, which stretches from the MARTA overpass to Roxboro Road, on Dec. 11. However, many Buckhead Patch readers and those who use Peachtree Road almost daily wondered what exactly the transformation was. The project was meant to make the stretch of Peachtree Road a "complete" street with granite curbing and medians, hardwood trees, seasonal color landscaping, bike lanes, wide sidewalks, modern lighting, street furniture and buried utilities. The new changes in phase II of the project include limiting left turns to designated lanes at traffic signals in an effort to ease traffic …
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elisa cousins
3:58 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I would like to know WHERE they PLAN to install the STREETCARS...An other of those ATL-style cosmetic waste of money in my book but (given that it's already decided) couldn't they mod the area in such a way that it wouldn't require RIPPING everything up when the streetcars come in? Why is it that this town can only see as far as "TOMORROW" and miss out on "NEXT WEEK" every single time we would … more ›