When the dust cleared Friday in Fulton County Superior Court, Peachtree City had the option of making good on Georgia Regional Transportation Authority’s (GRTA) insistence that the bridge on TDK have four lanes or face possible funding restrictions on future transportation projects in the area.

“On the merits, GRTA had the authority to approve the plan with conditions. And whatever process was due Peachtree City, they have received. And the action was appropriate,” said Judge John J. Goger.

The decision came after Peachtree City filed suit in opposition to a portion of GRTA’s approval of the McIntosh Village development, the requirement that a four-lane bridge be constructed over Line Creek.

Peachtree City attorney Ted Meeker opposed GRTA attorney Frank Jenkins and McIntosh Partners attorney Buddy Welch, with both sides raising issues that, in the end, had Judge Goger siding with the regional authority.

In a departure from the legal issues being debated, Welch offered a slightly different take on the issue.

“I think this issue of funding is a guise. This issue is political. It became a political issue in Peachtree City,” Welch said, noting his belief that the city did not want the bridge to be four-laned due to the increased traffic that would result.