Atlanta Street Extension Project Will Benefit Transit Access

“After more than five years of planning and fundraising, a street expansion project in Midtown that aims to boost connectivity between a MARTA station and major streets is clearing final hurdles before construction,” reports Josh Green for Urbanize Atlanta.

The plan would extend 15th Street by two blocks west, past where it currently dead-ends at West Peachtree Street toward Atlantic Station, “to create a multimodal link from the Arts Center MARTA station to Williams Street, near the downtown Connector,” adds Green. The street’s current dead end creates what is essentially a wall around the transit hub.

“More than $6 million in funding is in place to build the project, with about half of that coming from Georgia Department of Transportation and federal coffers. Midtown Improvement District funds and City of Atlanta impact fees are covering the bulk of remaining costs,” according to Green.