Metro Atlanta: Get ready for a decade of road construction
By David Wickert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AtlantaNewsAndTalk.Com The reconstruction of one of metro Atlanta’s busiest highway interchanges will be finished by the end of this year. But a new era of road building has just begun. Metro Atlanta is about to experience the kind of highway construction boom it hasn’t seen since the completion of the Perimeter in 1969. With proceeds from a 2015 gas tax increase, the Georgia Department of Transportation will spend billions of dollars over the next decade to expand the region’s highways. The projects include an expansion of the region’s network of toll lanes, new highway interchanges…