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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Transit Grant Awarded for I-85 Corridor Light Rail

A $600,000 federal grant was given for more analysis of a transit system in Gwinnett County. It is described as a "stake in the ground" for the project.

The possibility of a day when Gwinnett commuters can pop in their headphones and hop on a train to get to work got one step closer to reality last week with a $600,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration. The Alternative Analysis grant is the first step for federal funding of the proposed I-85 Corridor Light Rail Transit System through the New Starts program. The Gwinnett Village CID, the Gwinnett Place CID and Gwinnett County will match the funds with $200,000 each, according to Chuck Warbington, Executive Director of the Gwinnett Village CID, bringing the total funds to over $1 million for in-depth analysis of a light rail to ease traffic congestion in the area. He describes the project as a stake in the ground for the transit …

PATRICK MILLS

8:48 pm on Monday, February 6, 2012

GWINNETT CO. NEED A BUS TO TURN FROM SOUTH NORCROSS RIGHT ON J .C. B. TURN AROUND @ HOME DEPOT. AND COME BACK DOWN AND YHEN TURN ON SINGLETON...PEOPLE LIVE ON J.C.B. ALSO....   more ›

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

A Day on Gwinnett County Public Transit

One intrepid citizen tries to go to the county seat by the bus. It took her two and a half hours to get there from Norcross--that's an hour longer than the quoted time and far longer than her patience could handle.

Like many people, I love my city but hate my commute. Most mornings  I fly into a daily fit of rage when trying to merge onto I-285. Seeing the flying fists and the flailing arms of other commuters, I don’t think I’m alone in that anger.  In trying to find a better way, I decided to take the bus. I’d seen the red Gwinnett County Transit buses traveling up and down the roads for about a year but never thought of taking them myself. I finally chose Lawrenceville as my destination, assuming since it was the county seat that there would be plenty of buses going to and from there. I spent some time on the Gwinnett Transport website trying to make heads or tails of the route maps but in the end I had to call customer service. To get from …

Jamie Ward

12:16 pm on Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I've said the same things about MARTA before. It's taken me longer to get from the airport to the North Springs station than my flight from Chicago to Atlanta took, especially on Sunday's. It's true that people rely on public transit for their livelihood, but when it runs this inefficiently, it makes you wonder how they rely on it when the service itself is so unreliable.   more ›

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