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County responds to concerns over proposed transit hub
Route maps and potential facilities in the proposed Connect Gwinnett Transit Plan should be viewed as concepts rather than final designs, a county official said Friday in a letter addressing residents’ concerns over a proposed transit hub in Peachtree Corners.
4.1.5.5 Peachtree Corners Transit Center (New)
Quote in question from the Connect Gwinnett Recommendation Report
A new transit hub is proposed to be in Peachtree Corners near the intersection of Peachtree Corners Circle and W Jones Bridge Road, with a specific location to be determined. The facility would include space for multiple bus bays, enhance waiting areas to enable transfers between multiple routes, and may also include additional stop amenities and customer service facilities.
“The designation on the map for a transit hub is intended to reflect a very general area. … As of now, no work has been done to determine the feasibility of any sites,” Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charlotte J. Nash said in the letter to Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason.
“In essence, the planning process has identified the need for a transit hub in the Peachtree Corners area and that has been depicted on the map,” Nash said.
Early voting is underway in the March 19 referendum on the plan, which includes a transit hub near the intersection of Peachtree Corners Circle and W. Jones Bridge Road, with a specific location to be determined.
The hub would include multiple bus bays and waiting areas and could also have “additional stop amenities” and customer service facilities, according to the transit plan’s July 2018 Recommendations Report.
Residents became alarmed after a Feb. 25 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article mentioned the transit hub as one of the recommendations in the 167-page plan, which is available online.
Each route and facility in the plan will go through a “detailed vetting and evaluation process that likely will result in revisions as information is uncovered,” Nash said in her letter.
She goes on to say that transit hubs tend to be located in “more commercial/industrialized areas,” and said she agrees that the proposed location for a Peachtree Corners transit hub is not appropriate.
“It makes more sense for all sorts of reasons to place this facility as close to one of the major corridors as possible, and I anticipate that the search for a suitable site will focus in these corridors,” Nash said.
Her letter also assures Mason that there will be “robust coordination” between the county and city on this matter.
Learn more
• See Nash’s letter here:
peachtreecornersga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1821/160?backlist=%2F.
• See the full Connect Gwinnett Transit Plan here:
