Toll Diversion: More Than 9000 Trucks a Day on Cobb Parkway (Hwy 41)

A newly released study by ALK Technologies of Princeton, New Jersey shows that if the proposed mandatory toll on I-75 reaches 50 cents per mile (well below what developers apparently have in mind), more than 9,000 trucks a day may leave the Interstate. ...The report goes on...

Part of the reason for this is that Cobb Parkway (US Hwy. 41) closely parallels I-75, so there is almost no increase in mileage should a truck divert to the US route. ...details

Traffic Diversion Reduces Safety

Traffic diversion reduces safety because of additional miles traveled and greater accident exposure. Interstates are the safest roads and alternate routes can have accident rates 4 times higher or more.

The People of Georgia Will Be $4,000,000,000 in debt!

If the Northwest Corridor Project goes through, the State of Georgia (i.e. the people of Georgia) will be $4 billion in debt. That is the equivalent of almost two years of the entire DOT budget. This won’t be private debt, as some people believe; it will all be state issued debt... more detail

The Plan Completely Ignores the Fact that Traffic Congestion Will Not Improve!

The SRTA (State Road and Tollway Authority) study found that voluntary Truck Only Lanes would significantly ease congestion, and that tolls could be used to manage traffic flow between the Truck Only Lanes and General Purpose Lanes. But the same study found that mandatory Truck Only Toll Lanes would create a traffic nightmare. GTP appears to be misusing the findings of the study by claiming the benefits of voluntary lanes. more

In fact, their own analysis echoes the SRTA findings. According to the Georgia Transportation Partners’ report, the project will actually increase traffic bottlenecks when complete. In fact, after $4 billion is spent, the project will make traffic flow worse that just doing nothing – unless the state then spends hundreds of millions more dollars on projects nearby; (DEIS 2.2.4 General Purpose Freeway Lanes).

Wear and Tear on "Lower Order Roads" Increases Maintenance Costs

Toll road diversion causes a type and volume of traffic on lower-order roads that they were not designed to handle, so there are additional costs associated with maintaining and upgrading these roads.