1 - Ivan Allen, Jr. Digital Collection - Georgia Institute of Technology

MA RTA D~'~J!;1y"~oteOn Garden Hills SiteHy MARCIA STEVENSNews EditorThe board of directors of theMetropolitan Atlanta Rapid TransitAuthority has delaved a vote on itsplans for station locations in GardenHills.MARTA General Manager AlanKeipper Monday told the board that anin-depth study by the City PlanningDepartment of a plan to consolidatetwo proposed stations into one site waslate in getting to MARTA.The city's study, released in lastweek 's Neighbor. supports constructionof a single station at the intersectionof Piedmont and Lindberg Drive.MARTA's staff has, in the past, supportedthe plans. as approved in theMARTA referendum, which call forconstruction of two stations less than amile apart a long the Piedmont­Lindberg Line.Residetns of Garden Hilts, PeachtreeHills and Peachtree Heights opposedthe two-station plan as did the city ofAtlanta Planning Department whichcalled for consolidation of the twostations into a single station on the si teof the vacated Arlan's DepartmentStore.Finance Director Charles Davis (Right) Talks Quietly With Councilman Richard Guthman~a~tR;;;~~The MARTA staff was to make itsfinal recommendations to the boardMonday but those recommendationswere delayed pending evaluation of theplanning department's latest study onthe one-site plan.In other action regarding MARTAs ta(;O'''~ sites on the Northside, ~has called onto ask theplanning department to do a similarstudy on the southern alternative to thecontroversIal Northside Drive and 1·75MARTA station .Only a graphic study has been done,Guthman said.What he is asking for is a detailedwritten report on the si te along HolmesStreet, south of the 1·75 Northsideinterchange.The reterendum plan calls forconstruction of that station on thenorthwest corner of that interchange,However . the Collier Hills ,Springlake. and Wildwood Civic Associationshave pushed for changes .•