Finally! Interactive T-SPLOST Map!
Decatur Metro | February 20, 2012 | 10:08 am
Do you love transportation? Not the kind of wind-in-your-face-winding-through-the-Smokies-on-your-Harley-type transportation. I mean DISCUSSING transportation options. You do? Do you also love interactive maps?
If you answered YES to both of those questions, first take a moment to reconsider your passions, and when that doesn’t work check out this wicked, new interactive map showing all the proposed Atlanta metro T-SPLOST projects in their color-coded glory! (Red means transit, blue means roads, green means bike/ped).
When you click on a project on the map you get a little synopsis off to the right of the page. For example, here’s one for the green pitchfork of Decatur streets seen in the screen-grab above…
This project complements the Clifton Corridor transit project by providing sidewalks and bicycle lanes on Claremont Road and Church Street, which will link with a planned transit station in the vicinity of Claremont Road and North Decatur Road. Additionally, this project improves signal timing and key intersections on Commerce Drive. The total cost of the project is $5,000,000, which will be entirely funded under TIA.
Pretty neat, right?? And if you zoom out to take in the full view of all the red/blue/green projects, the entire metro area looks like a giant, throbbing heart!
I’m not normally “out of the loop” on these transportation discussions, but what exactly is the “planned transit station in the vicinity of Clairemont Road and North Decatur Road?” Haven’t heard of this one. Anyone have any more info on this?
Thanks!
It’s a planned 4-sided brick structure in the center of the Clairemont and N. Decatur intersection.The building will feature a subterranean high-speed rail station (To where is TBD), ground level mixed-use retail/commercial/residential/industrial tenant mix, and a combination roof-top heliport and zip line connecting to Centennial Olympic Park. However, the zeppelin docking port may be cut due to environmental impact concerns.
It’s the FUTURE!!!
The Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative has some cool maps: http://www.itsmarta.com/clifton-corr-maps.aspx Apparently, the heavy rail corridor will go all the way from Lindbergh to North Decatur/Clairemont. After that it looks like buses/light rail will take you clockwise around Decatur to Avondale.
According to this (http://www.itsmarta.com/uploadedFiles/About_MARTA/Planning/Clifon_Corr/LRT_BRT-Section%205%20N%20Decatur%20to%20Suburban%20Plaza_10-25-2011_48x36.pdf), the station will be underground in the Yami Sushi/Los Loros parking lot. But it’s not funded under T-SPLOST.
Here is a link to all the projects for you infrastructure geeks out there.
http://www.atlantaregionalroundtable.com/documents/final_report.pdf
Kathy, I think the ‘planned transit thing’ was this thread here…
http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/10/27/proposed-clifton-light-rail-line-tunnels-under-clairemont-runs-at-street-level-on-scott/
If you’d like to segment your search by project type, county, sub-region or by proposed completion, check out the interactive project map on the MAVEN site.
http://transformmetroatlanta.com/regional-projects/
This interactive map’s got some serious issues. Take TIA-AT-004 for example (http://documents.atlantaregional.com/tia/pdf/TIA-AT-004.pdf). The entire Streetcar-to-Beltline-to-Piedmont-Park connection is missing in the interactive map!