Buckhead Community Improvement District Receives $10 million for Lenox Road Complete Safe Street Project
U.S. Department of Transportation grant advances plans for $40 million elevated pedestrian bridge at Lenox Road-GA 400 intersection
ATLANTA – September 5, 2024 – The Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID) has been awarded $10 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program to help construct an elevated pedestrian and bicycle bridge across Lenox Road where it intersects GA 400. This work is part of the Lenox Road Complete Safe Street project which will transform the major Buckhead thoroughfare and create a 1.25-mile pedestrian-friendly corridor between the Lenox MARTA station and Piedmont Road.
“We are very grateful to the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Georgia congressional delegation for their support,” said Jim Durrett, executive director of BCID and president of the Buckhead Coalition. “The Safe Streets and Roads for All funding is essential to help us transform this section of Lenox Road and provide safe, easy access for pedestrians and cyclists to reach the Buckhead and Lenox MARTA stations and many other locations in the Buckhead core.”
Lenox Road Complete Safe Street Section III, an approximately $40 million project, will improve connectivity and pedestrian safety by adding a shared-use bridge for bicycles and pedestrians along the south side of Lenox Road spanning the GA 400 intersection and crossing Lenox Road on the west side of the GA 400 intersection. The bridge will connect to PATH400 and also serve as a gateway to the planned highway-capping park, HUB404, giving people on foot and bike easy access to points of interest throughout the community and beyond.
“The Lenox Road Complete Safe Street project is an exciting step forward in the CID’s ongoing work to create a more connected Buckhead,” said Thad Ellis, chairman of BCID. “Making a major highway intersection safe and accessible for pedestrians and cyclists is no small task, and we are thankful to the partners who are helping us meet the challenge.”
BCID is partnering with the City of Atlanta and Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to construct the 0.62-mile shared-use path and elevated pedestrian and bicycle bridge for Lenox Road Complete Safe Street Section III. Engineering design is projected to be completed by August 2025 with construction estimated to begin following public bidding in October 2025. BCID and GDOT anticipate project completion by January 2028.
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About Buckhead CID
The objective of the Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID), working with the City of Atlanta and its community partners, is to meet the challenges resulting from Buckhead’s rapid, primarily automobile-based growth, including improving safety, traffic mobility, enhancing the pedestrian environment, creating better access to public transit, initiating intra-district transportation alternatives, encouraging better integration of land uses and improving linkages to the region’s automobile, transit and bicycle networks. For more information about the Buckhead CID, visit www.buckheadcid.org.
