Buckhead Coalition pushing for end to Ga. 400 toll
The Buckhead Coalition wants the state to end the Ga. 400 toll — or build a new ramp
The CEOS and muckety-mucks behind the Buckhead Coalition have decided to use their considerable civic clout in demanding that the state honor its two-decade-old pledge to dismantle the toll plaza on Ga. 400 when the road construction bonds are paid off in July 2011.
“We’d all promised — the City Council, the state, the Buckhead Coalition — that if voters approved Georgia’s first toll road, then the toll would go away once the debt was retired,” explains BC president Sam Massell, whose group helped lobby for the toll as a funding mechanism for the then-proposed Ga. 400 extension, which runs from I-285 through Buckhead to I-85.
“Just once, I’d like to see politicians keep their word,” the former Atlanta mayor says.