After agreeing

to a deal in principle with the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority

for express buses, Coweta County is not wasting any time in trying to

improve some dangerous intersections.

In exchange

for paying $850,000 to help run the bus system for three years, the county

receives $10.4 million to improve dangerous intersections and arterial

roads.

The current

plans for the bus system calls for eight round trips a day from Coweta

County to Hartsfield. It could be operating by the summer of 2003.

County administrator

Theron Gay said the county has already moved forward with engineering

for some of the more pressing intersections.

While the county

does not know when the funds will start trickling in from GRTA, Gay said

the county intends money approved in a recent SPLOST election and then

get reimbursed from the transportation agency.

Gay said the

county's biggest need is for improving the conditions along Lower Fayetteville

Road, but also said it is working on the engineering for several intersections,

including:

·Old Carrollton

Highway and Ga. Highway 16.

·Hwy.16

and Poplar Road.

·Macedonia

Road and Hwy.16.

·Marion

Beavers Road and Ga. Highway 154.

·Hwy.154

and Hwy.16.

·Gordon

Road and Ga. Highway 54.

·Wallace

Grey Road and Belt Road.