Buckhead Neighborhood Battles GDOT Plan to Widen U.S. 41 to 6 Lanes
Politically influential Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods backs proposal to just rebuild Chattahoochee River Bridge between Cobb, Fulton counties.
The small Paces Battle neighborhood, nestled on the Chattahoochee River, sees its quiet, bucolic lifestyle threatened by a plan to make Cobb Parkway six lanes from Paces Mill Road in Cobb to Northgate Drive in Fulton. The Buckhead community received help Thursday night in its fight against the Georgia Department of Transportation plan to remove its heavily wooded buffer from the highway. The politically influential Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods voted unanimously to support a Paces Battle proposal to limit the construction plan. With two GDOT representatives and a number of neighborhood residents packing the stately Peachtree Presbyterian Church meeting room, the discussion at times grew heated over GDOT plans to rebuild the …
Donna Short-Woodham
12:03 pm on Saturday, June 11, 2011
Another road widening project that waste our tax dollars. The 41hwy is busy twice aday morning and afternoon rush hour The rest of the time it has only moderate traffic with no congestion. If only GDOT could put people back to work in other useful ways. Using our tax dollars to take down useful trees ruin beautiful neighborhoods and turn the Chattahoochee bridge area into a buford hwy type wast … more ›