CDOT unveils Connect Cobb
Channel: Craig Kootsillas
Date: 2015-07-07

Cobb department of transportation shocked Cobb when they made this presentation to Cobb commissioners at their 5/25/2010 work session.

Few had any idea of the $3.8 million transit plan created years earlier (1998-2001) by owners of property near Cobb's malls.

Now, this presentation comes front and center. In this presentation, CDOT makes clear that queue-jumper lanes and signal pre-emption are a key component of the plan in spite of recent assurances to the FTA they are not. 

CDOT also claims that the plan already had been adopted into Cobb's Comprehensive Transportation Plan in 2008 in spite of the fact that no one had heard of the plan at the time.  

CDOT later would deny the plan was in the CTP, then later claim it was to secure federal funding.

Also in this presentation is a hint of the tricks that will follow. CDOT says they may have found a way to create the final plan while simultaneously doing an environmental study.

Is this prejudicing the outcome?

That will be for federal regulatory and investigative agencies to determine.