I’m back out of school for now, but still exhausted. It may take a while before I get anywhere near a daily blogging schedule, but here is one for a start.

The Atlanta Regional Commission just released the new 2006-2011 Transportation Improvement Program list of projects. The actual document is about 557 pages long, full of lots of transportation programs, both good and bad. No document like this could ever be all good or all bad.

The new TIP certainly provides a wealth of blogger fodder. Here’s the first item I’ll point out:

Page 253, project CO-279. In Cobb County, right by my stomping grounds, is a proposed extension of Mount Wilkinson Parkway to go through the apartment complex on Crestlane Drive and the Drewsbury subdivision. Mount Wilkinson Parkway will run ramshod through these two neighborhoods for the sake of connecting to Campbell Road.

There’s little doubt in my mind that someday more neighborhooods will fall victim to the Parkway just to make the connection to Spring Road. Assuming I’m reading this thing right, the project is estimated to cost $21,557,600. $4,440,000 of that will come from the federal government. The rest will come from Cobb County taxpayers.

What was that I said about the Cobb SPLOST, again?