Sandy Springs Transportation Master Plan - Last Session, Thursday, February 26 | 5:30–7:30 p.m, Church of the Redeemer

Latest information: https://www.sandyspringsga.gov/sandy-springs-transportation-master-plan

Hello, a reminder to everyone to get involved with the Sandy Springs  Transportation Master Plan. The last session is tomorrow, Thursday, February 26 | 5:30–7:30 p.m, at the Church of the Redeemer. See details at the link above. You can come at any time during this window, you do not have to stay.

Here is my previous post about it: https://safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/11/sandy-springs-transportation-master.html 

Sandy Springs officials pride themselves on having the best public safety and emergency responders that we can get. We should have the same high standards for road safety and not accept the status quo that leaves 40k people a year dead on America's roads.

I went to tonight's session to give my input. Specifically I called for protection where drivers entering the southern border of the city on Roswell Rd frequently crash off of the road. Here is my post about last months' crash https://safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2026/01/january-5-2026-crash-from-roswell-rd.html and the Rough Draft article about the crash. As a reminder, this is only the latest in a series of many crashes at this site, and if you walk that stretch you can see marks of some of them.

City staff told me their decision to build protection depends on previous injuries and property damage. This is the wrong way to analyze where we need to build safety improvements. A guardrail or concrete barrier at this bend in the road might even increase property damage, as dangerous drivers crash into it and damage their own cars. But it is still the right thing to do for the city to stop drivers from crashing and injuring other people. Roswell Rd is managed by GDOT and hypothetically they might object because they prioritize drivers speeding through Sandy Springs over safety. But the city should force the issue by trying to get it done and make GDOT react.



I also recommended building bike paths to connect the city to the upcoming Path 400 connection to Windsor, in line with this post. More broadly I reminded them that spending millions of dollars to increase how many cars can drive on the city's streets will not solve congestion, because of induced demand. Our Transportation Master Plan needs to be providing infrastructure for alternative modes of transportation, ideally in partnership with other city departments reducing demand for driving. Especially by non-residents; the daytime population of the city is over twice as large as the population of residents, and many others drive through the city between neighboring municipalities.