GDOT hosts open houses for bizarrely titled transit project
October 17, 2007 at 10:15 am by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe Georgia Department of Transportation wins top honors in today’s most-annoying-road-project-to-type contest with its announcement of the revive285 top end open house events in taking place at the end of the month in Chamblee and Sandy Springs. Yep, that’s how they write it in the press release and on the website — revive285 top end. This thing sounds like an OTP megachurch.
But don’t judge a transportation project by its logo, sillies. The scope of the project is to re-examine the well-traveled northern segment of the loop that runs between I-75 and I-85 and determine how it can be improved. They’ll be looking at managed lanes, bus rapid transit and other ways the segment can better serve not just motorists traveling on it but also the corridors to which it connects. The project’s analysis and concept-development phase will last until 2009; approval of the environmental report will most likely occur in 2010.
Here’s the info:
- Chamblee/Doraville: Chamblee Civic Center, 3540 Broad St., Tues., Oct. 23, 4-7 p.m.
- Sandy Springs: Riverwood High School, 5900 Heards Drive, Thurs., Oct. 25, 4-7 p.m.
Public comment is welcome both at the open houses and through the website. Please ask them to change that name so I don’t go crazy alternating between bold and italicized fonts whenever I write about it.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Heh, was fixing to chomp on some gdot fragrance model legs for brunch over the bad weblink until i realized that they have you so exasperated with typing revive285 that you typed in two https.
http://http//www.revive285.com/publiccomment.asp
http//www.revive285.com/publiccomment.asp
thanks for the heads up
from gdot central, Bbib County, Georgia USA?
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR
if it’s backwards, it either originated in Bbib County or at TODG, scambled code word for Top Dogs or Top Gods.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Ha! I feel your pain. I work for one of the consultants on the project and type that a dozen times a day in reports.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
BlackAcura, my heart goes out to you, friend.
I can understand wanting to distinguish that segment from the others if they’re planning on having examinations of the rest of I-285, but come on. Ain’t there a better way?
Please don’t tell me the thought process that went into this thing was like “Brand Atlanta.”
October 17th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Victor, sorry about that link mix-up. revive285 top end already got the best of me.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:53 am
F-ing elected official idiots when it comes to GDOT.
The head GDOT job was open for four days. Four days. They didn’t even think for one second about bringing someone from out of state in.