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THE BRAVES BRIDGE

To no ones surprise and from what I can tell no ones outrage the ATLANTA Braves move to the suburbs is back in the news again, just in time for spring training. Covered here almost ad nauseam the Braves are moving, what is it 14 miles, 12 miles up I-75 to a whole new world of presumed whiteness of greater Cobb County. 

The brand new Suntrust mall ballpark has been ground broke and things are moving along nicely for a 2017 first pitch - BUT, how to get the good Martaless folks of greater Cobb to the mall ballpark - since the Grand Canyon of I-285 looms between all the parking and the peanuts and hot dogs . You build a bridge. And really to listen to the powers that be there in Cobb county it is only going to take 9 million dollars and just a tad of distress and the money will come from children's bake sales.

From the AJC : Cobb County is asking engineering firms to design a double-decker bridge over Interstate 285 that would allow fans to come and go from the new Atlanta Braves stadium via a circulator bus on the top span and a pedestrian walkway on the bottom.That’s the latest plan in the ever-evolving project — and the county still has no idea how much it will cost or how it will be funded.

The Request For Proposal was released just three months after Cobb transportation officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the circulator bus had been removed from the bridge design. Designing it to support a transit vehicle would be too expensive, the officials said.At the time, the 1,100-foot bridge — spanning the interstate, Galleria Drive and Circle 75 Parkway — was going to be a single span.

The AJC first reported in November that the county will be responsible for funding at least half of the bridge’s cost, despite Commission Chairman Tim Lee’s repeated assurances that no local tax money would be used for its construction. That information was revealed in an application the county submitted for the project with the Atlanta Regional Commission. The newspaper reviewed hundreds of pages of emails, reports, artist renderings and conceptual drawings for that story.

Lee acknowledged during a Monday town hall meeting that local tax dollars will help fund the bridge.

FULL STORY HERE