Peachtree City

officials are trying to get the Georgia Department of Transportation to

tweak its design for the widening of Ga. Highway 54 West from the intersection

of Hwy. 74 to the Coweta County line.

The four-lane

widening includes a grassy median that could be used in the future should

the need arise to expand to six lanes. Currently, however, that median

is depressed.

City officials

want DOT to raise the median so it can be attractively landscaped.

To create the

funds for that, the city is suggesting that DOT scrap the sidewalks it

has in the current design of the highway expansion since the cart path

system serves approximately the same purpose: moving pedestrians.

In a recent

meeting of the overlay district committee, Brown said he felt DOT officials

were receptive to the changes.

City Planner

David Rast told the committee that DOT officials have suggested alternate

plans to route Huddleston Road under the highway to connect to an access

road that would serve the commercial development in the area and eventually

link up with MacDuff Parkway. The DOT has also suggested eliminating the

proposed signal for Line Creek Parkway.

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