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RREATH
MARTA’s future plans may
impact areas east of Ga. 400
Bf JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers. net
Sandy Springs and Dunwoody offi
cials are starting to pay close attention as
MARTA takes a new look at mass transit
north of the Chattahoochee River.
Don Boyken, chairman of the Dun-
woody Chamber of Commerce, told
members of the Dunwoody Homeown
ers Association on Nov. 3 “it’s not too
early” to start lobbying the transit agen
cy over its plans to extend the rail line
north from the North Springs station.
Boyken said a
new MARTA study
shows the rail line to
the east of Ga. 400,
which means neigh
borhoods in Sandy
Springs and Dun
woody would be in
the path of construc
tion. Two decades or
so ago, local officials
convinced MARTA
to build on the west
side of Ga. 400, he
said, but those plans
have been set aside
and are to be replaced
by new ones.
“We as Dun
woody and San
dy Springs need to
talk to MARTA to
get them to go back
to the [old] plan,”
Boyken said.
MARTA officials
two years ago began
again examining ways to provide future
mass transit to Fulton County residents
who live north of the river. Janide Sidi-
fall, project manager for MARTA, said
the agency said “had to start back at zero
in 2011.”
MARTA is examining three options:
bus rapid transit, light rail, and extend
ing the current heavy rail line north
from Sandy Springs. The agency is con
sidering adding stations at Northridge
Road, Holcomb Bridge Road, Mansell
Road, North Point Mall, Old Milton
Parkway and Windward Parkway.
Preliminary estimates show the bus
option is expected to cost about $460
million, compared to $1.8 billion for
light rail and $1.6 billion for heavy rail,
Sidifall said. The heavy rail option is
cheaper than light rail, she said, because
it extends the current line.
Boyken said residents of Alpharetta,
Roswell and other Fulton County cit
ies north of the river support the plan.
“Folks north of the river are very much
in favor of this line,” Boyken told DHA
board members. “They’ve been sitting in
traffic for years.”
During the DHA meeting, state Sen.
Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody) said he and
other members of the community’s leg
islative delegation would weigh in to try
to convince MARTA officials to move
the line back to the west side of Ga. 400.
Rep. Mike Jacobs (R-Brookhaven),
who chairs the Legislature’s MARTA
budget oversight committee, said the
agency should stick to its prior agree
ments.
“If an understanding was reached
with the community, MARTA should
honor it, regardless of the passage of
time,” Jacobs said in an email.
The reason MAR
TA is looking at a rail
line east of Ga. 400
is simple: cost. Sidi
fall said each crossing
of Ga. 400 is project
ed to add “a few hun
dred thousand dollars”
to the cost. If the train
crosses to the west side
of Ga. 400, it will at
some point have to re
turn to the east side,
she said.
“It is still possi
ble to go on the west
side,” she said. “It is
more expensive. And
when you’re looking
on the national scale,
competing with Port
land and Dallas and
New V>rk and oth
er cities, cost is a big
thing.”
MARTA officials
presented the plans
to Sandy Springs City Council on Oct.
1, and council members agreed a pro
posed Northridge station should be cut
from the plan, according to city records.
“The plan shows a station being lo
cated at Northridge on the east side of
Ga. 400,” city spokeswoman Sharon
Kraun said in an email. “Councilman
[John] Paulson spoke against having a
station on the east side, where there is
a school, office and residential. He sug
gested extending along the west side.”
Councilwoman Karen Meinzen
McEnerny said she did not agree that
the station should be removed from the
plan, but agreed that is should be west
of Ga. 400.
“I agree with the council that it can
not be on the east side adjacent to sev
eral ‘protected neighborhoods,”’ she said
in an email. “But to pass on an oppor
tunity to have it on the west side is ludi
crous in the long run .... The west side
has commercial areas and infrastructure
(sidewalks) connecting it to the many
nearby apartments and Roswell Road.”
The Sandy Springs council did not
take a formal vote on the proposal. Sid
ifall said additional public meetings
could be scheduled soon. “Hopeful
ly, we’ll get some folks out from Dun
woody this time,” she said.
“We as Dunwoody and
Sandy Springs need to talk
to AAARTA to get them to go
back to the [old] plan.”
- DON BOYKEN
CHAIRMAN OF THE DUNWOODY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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