By Joe Earle
With help from PATH400 and the Georgia Department of Transportation, the cities of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody could one day be connected via multiuse trails to Atlanta’s BeltLine.
“Good stuff is happening with [PATH400],” Denise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead, said at a recent North Buckhead Civic Association meeting.
With Phase 1 of the trail that runs along Ga. 400 complete from Lenox Road to Old Ivy Road, the organization is now working on Old Ivy to Wieuca, with future phases including Sidney Marcus to Miami Circle; Wieuca Road Mountain Way Common; and Lenox Road to Peachtree Road via Tower Place Drive and will eventually connect to the Atlanta BeltLine.
Additionally in Brookhaven, work is underway on a trail along the north fork of Peachtree Creek which will eventually stretch as far south as the place the BeltLine and PATH400 will converge, and as far north as Duluth.
But with pressure from cities like Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, who want to connect to the PATH400, that trail could also go north.
“There’s a lot of pressure now coming from Sandy Springs and Dunwoody to connect in to [the trail],” Starling said. “They are loving the idea of being able to access PATH400 and get to the BeltLine.”
City officials in Sandy Springs, Dunwoody and Brookhaven as well as local non-profits and chambers have recently signed resolutions urging GDOT to allow expansion of the trail network through the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange.
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