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Newspaper Page TextCOMMUNITY City seeks traffic fix on N. Druid Hills P4 Bus transit would work on 1-285, consultants predict City sells $38.8M in bonds for park upgrades SPECIAL Buses similar to this one in Nevada are being recommended for use in bus rapid transit system on 1-285. ROBIN’S NEST Dad jokes? They just don’t age well pis AROUND TOWN From Y soccer fields to the World Cup P16 Reporter Extra Podcast & Live Stream HEAR OUR PODCASTS Interviews with newsmakers and community news updates IN FEBRUARY ► Brookhaven Mayor John Ernst ► Buckhead Coalition President Sam Massell COMING SOON ► Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul ► Dunwoody Mayor Denis Shortal Go to ReporterNewspapers.net or ‘ like’ our Facebook Page for our next podcasts Podcast BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reyiorternewspapers.net The city on Jan. 22 sold $38,855,000 in bonds to fund parks upgrades - a bit less than the $40 million maximum approved by voters last year. And a citizens oversight committee was named the same day to re view the spending on new and improved green space, including what improvements are made and when. Securing the money “really kicks off the program, and we’ll be tearing down the road the next few years getting parks built,” Assis tant City Manager Steve Chapman told the City Council. City officials said a favorable overall in terest rate of 3.41 percent allowed them to Continued on page 17 BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net A new bus system running along the planned 1-285 toll lanes is the most feasible solution to provide east and west connectiv ity in the area, transportation consultants working with several cities along the inter state said in a report at the Sandy Springs City Council Jan. 22 retreat. The study was the result of meetings ini tiated in 2017 by Brookhaven Mayor John Ernst with other top end mayors from Dun- woody, Sandy Springs, Chamblee, Doraville, Smyrna and Tucker as well as Perimeter Community Improvement Districts and the Cumberland Community Improvement Dis tricts, which all helped fund it. The effort looks at how to incorporate transit in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s toll lanes project and provide transit running east and west. A bus rapid transit system is already in the works on the Ga. 400 piece of the toll lanes project after receiving $100 million in funding from former Gov. Nathan Deal in 2018. In a separate presentation by MARTA at the retreat, the transit agency said it ex pects to modify the North Springs MARTA Station to add a bus rapid transit platform either at-grade or elevated. At-grade would be estimated to cost $90 million and elevat ed $125 million. The consultants on the 1-285 transit study haven’t fully finished their work, but See BUS on page 19 SI# liuxied VO ‘eojuo|A| aivd aOeisod SD SSMy03 aislysyd y3i/\ioisno ivisod LOVE LANGUAGE IN ANY 2090 Dunwoody Club Dr Ste 107 Sandy Springs, GA 30350 www.lauderhills.com 770-396-0492 r l

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Brookhaven reporter. (Sandy Springs, GA) 20??-current, February 02, 2019, Image 1