CDM Smith has been selected to design the largest traffic on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority bus bus to date: a 13.6-mile route through Suburban Clayton County, which will include a high guide to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Called Rapid Southlake, the high -capacity BT line will serve approximately 19 stops between the airport and the Southlake shopping center in the city of Morrow, Ga. CDM Smith will also design a pedestrian bridge connector that connects the BT stop with the airport terminal and the Marta railway station. The design work will lead to the completion of project engineering, construction plans and the identification of right -wing requirements.
According to an announcement by CDM Smith, the current budget of the Rapid Southlake project is $ 355.6 million, with the two -year design phase funded by a sales tax of a hundred approved by Clayton County voters in 2014. The project has described for a rationalization of sales exclusion with an environmental settlement process of the Federal Administration of Traffic Under the FTA capital investment program, small investments in small investments in small investments that are invested in the small investments in small investments in small businesses that are invested in small investments of small parts. 2028. The Rapid Southlake Income Service will begin by 2030.
As a Marta Brt project reveals, another struggle to reach the finish line. The Rapid A-line, a 14-kilometer back and forth route that will connect the Atlanta center with the southern neighborhoods, has found numerous unforeseen problems since the contractor Archer Western began construction in June 2023. Unexpected challenges include shallow water lines that require relocation to the proper depth; Utilities without documentation; The carts were historically significant; and an abandoned underground parking structure.
Marta says that the nature of the additional work has promoted the project calendar beyond the starting date of autumn 2025.In April, the board of directors of the agency approved a modification of $ 30.3 million in the existing contract of almost $ 66 million of Archer Western, providing the total allocation for the construction to more than $ 96.2 million. A presentation of the Board said that the rapid line will now be implemented in two phases during 2026.
Formerly called Rapid Summerhill, the Rapid line is Marta’s first new line of traffic in 25 years and the start of what the agency envisages as a network of BT lines that complement its existing railway and bus traffic infrastructure. The project funded by a federal federal tiger grant of $ 12.6 million, Marta and the city of Atlanta, also includes extensive sidewalks, bicycle infrastructure and traffic lanes, among other works.
