Mayor Wants to Create Atlanta's First-Ever Transportation Department

The proposal to create a new department in the city of Atlanta devoted to traffic and potholes came in the State of the City speech delivered this week by Mayor Keisha Bottoms.

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March 16, 2019, 5:00 AM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


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"Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Thursday announced that she is creating the city’s first Department of Transportation to help to address two of the city’s most pressing problems: potholes and traffic," reports Stephen Deere.

According to Mayor Bottoms, the idea for the transportation agency dates to her time on the Atlanta City Council, originating from Councilmember Andre Dickens.

"[T]he new department would coordinate with the public works department, which repairs the city’s roads; the planning department, which designs them; and Renew Atlanta, which makes long-term investments in the city’s transportation infrastructure," reports Deere of the ideas laid out by the mayor in a State of the City speech delivered at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta.

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