Summerhill’s red and green lanes could become a 50-year upkeep job for Atlanta

Atlanta could take on up to 50 years of maintenance for red bus-lane and green bike-lane surfaces along a 0.6-mile stretch of the MARTA Rapid Summerhill project.⁠[1]

Resolution 26-R-4414 would authorize an agreement with the Georgia Department of Transportation for State Route 154 between mileposts 46.70 and 47.30. The work would maintain the colored methyl methacrylate, or MMA, surface treatments—not take over the entire transit project.⁠[1][2]

The resolution says Atlanta’s transportation department is better suited than MARTA to maintain those treatments. The proposed agreement would run for 50 years from its effective date, although either Atlanta or Georgia DOT could terminate it sooner under its terms.⁠[1]

The three-page resolution does not provide a maintenance-cost estimate. Even if authorized, the agreement would not bind Atlanta until it receives the required legal approval, is signed by the mayor or a designee, is attested to by the municipal clerk and is delivered to Georgia DOT.⁠[1]

The packet lists Transportation Committee consideration as pending for Nov. 9, 2026, at 10 a.m., followed by City Council consideration on Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. Those listings are not an approval.⁠[1]

The committee meets in the Larry M. Dingle Committee Room at Atlanta City Hall, 55 Trinity Avenue. Its agenda includes a public-comment period with three minutes per speaker.⁠[2]