GAINESVILLE - You will get a chance starting next Thursday to tell Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) what you think about a plan to allow some motorists to pay to use the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes on I-85 in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties.
The idea is to turn the lanes into HOT (High Occupancy Toll) lanes and charge motorists to use them in cases when the driver is the only person on board. Those motorists would "buy" a certain number of trips in the HOV lanes, have a device installed on their car and each time they used one of the lanes, that device would deduct another trip from their quota.
Teri Pope, spokeswoman for the GDOT office in Gainesville, said Wednesday the lanes would still be free for multi-passenger vehicles but a car or truck with only the driver on board could legally use the HOV lanes for a fee. Several meetings are scheduled over the next two months to get public input, starting Thursday, March 26, in Duluth.
The full list is as follows:
March 26 from 5-8 pm at the Gwinnett Civic Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth
March 31 from 5-8 pm at Gwinnett Fire Academy, 3608 Braselton Highway (SR 124), Dacula
March 31 from 5-8 pm at Senior Connections, 5238 Peachtree Road, Chamblee
April 2 from 5-8 pm at Ashiana's Banquet Hall (inside Global Mall), 5675 Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Norcross
April 4 from 10 am-2pm at Discovery Mills Mall, 5900 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville
Sunday
April 6th, 2025
6:34AM
