By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism.
Transportation planning group OKs bike plan
Placeholder Image
An area transportation planning group gave its OK Tuesday to a $146 million bicycle-pedestrian plan that now will be considered in a long-range transportation plan update for Hall County that is slated to be completed by 2015. “That’s a pretty big price tag, but when you look at it in comparison to the couple billion dollars in your overall transportation plan, you’re talking about not a large percentage — you’re talking about less than 10 percent,” said Richard Fangmann of Pond & Co., a Norcross firm serving as consultant in the plan. Pond & Co. had worked for several months with a Gainesville-Hall County Metropolitan Planning Organization advisory group on the plan, looking at possible routes, potential costs and funding sources, as well as names for the trail network.