The Atlanta Regional Commission approved hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as part of an amendment to their regional Transportation Improvement Plan.
The amended TIP will now allocate $265.4 million in a combination of state and federal funds to pay for various transportation projects across the metro Atlanta area.
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Funding is split between $38.2 million from congressionally directed spending grants, $221.6 million from federal discretionary grant funding and $7.5 million from the Georgia Department of Transportation’s formula fund sources.
In an executive summary from ARC about the amended TIP, officials from the commission said the projects will be spread out across “many jurisdictions within in the Atlanta region, including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Spalding counties” and include multiuse trails, planning and studies, roadway expansions and operations, bridge rehabilitation and safety improvements.