You are correct R. W. morgan. To start with, lanes are 12 feet wide, minimum. Then there's the median and don't forget all of the drainage and detention as well as utilities, all of which have to be in the ROW. The standard width for a four lane road is 120ft. The 74 south 4 laning, So. of Cooper Lighting, is far more than 120 ft. The 4 laning of the bypass in Newnan is requiring at least 140 ft. If PTC has only acquired 80 feet of ROW , they've only room for 2 lanes.

The issue here is not what is "standard" width. I totally agree with you that 120 ft width is what one would normally obtain for a 4 lane highway. Actually, there are design criteria in various places in many cities/counties that call for more than this. The issue is whether 80 ft will support 4 lanes. It most definitely can support such, and can even include a turn lane. This is why TDK is a Trojan Horse. Who said you need a median? Drive over to Fayetteville tonight and get on Ga 85. Count the lanes and report back to me!!

There are roads all over the US where edge-of-pavement (EOP) is within a few feet of the right-of-way (R-O-W) boundary...some even coincide with the R-O-W.

The liars putting out the "2 lane story" know very well that they can easily widen this road when the time comes. They want the public fooled. I can't be fooled because I know all about this business and what they are up to.

Morgan - - there are no 4 lane plans YET. That can be accomplished in less than 6 months. The survey is already complete. Logsdon and Boone and the other developer-loving council members will get the 4 lanes done later. They know they can't sell the idea now, hence the smoke screen lawsuit.

We now know you were blowing your own smoke.
Funny, Steve Brown is on-line right now - probably looking at your (his) answer and the responses. Thanks for confirming you are a new user with an old identity.

The two-lane vs. four-lane debate is a joke. Any engineer worth a darn is going to tell you to go with four-lanes because of the traffic volume the Coweta developments will create - a no-brainer and I agree. Two lanes would be a disaster.

The Pavilion II in Coweta will die without TDK. Coweta will have to face their own traffic burden without TDK.

Kill TDK. Mayor Logsdon is desperate searching for a decent reason to get people to believe in TDK, good luck.

The TDK traffic counts at peak hours (that our own PTC city engineer presented several months ago) were over 4000 vehicles per hour. A 2 lane road cannot ever support this much traffic. The best the 2 lane road could do is about half this much. Google it and you will see AASHTO and other studies about the maximum capacity of 2 lane roads.

Thus we see that Harold Logsdon is a massive smoke blower, along with the other developer flaks that currently reside up at city hall. The whole gang is planning for 4 lanes, but they can't do it all at once. The conspiracy of PTC elected leaders, Coweta developers, and some Fayette business interests realizes they shot themselves in the foot by revealing the massive McIntosh development too soon. They will thus go with 2 lanes...temporarily. The conspiracy hopes to slip in another stealth council at a later date and get their other 2 lanes...maybe in about 5 years.

The question is thus formed: will the citizens of PTC allow this to happen? Are we that apathetic? Who will rescue PTC? Steve Brown, your day is coming again.

How do we get to Newnan after we cross the bridge? Wander through the woods to 34?
Why do we need four lanes to get to the other side of the creek and then back to 2 crooked, crooked lanes to 34.
WE DON'T. They need four lanes to get to 74s 6 lanes!!!!
WHY, oh why, do we want to do this?
Smelly, smelly, smelly.

I've heard it has been discussed for that long. But now, it is going to cause troubles.