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Gen Z wins day in Atlanta area primary races By ALESSANDRO MARAZZI SASSOON Atlanta Civic Circle
bridges over Ga. 400, starting in early 2023, at Kimball Bridge Road, Pitts Road and Roberts Drive. The Ga. 400 overpass on Kimball Bridge Road opened to traffic May 8 after a 365-day closure. Contractors with C.W. Matthews Contracting Company added two lanes with a raised median, a multi-use path on the north side and a sidewalk on the south side of the Alpharetta bridge.
ATLANTA — It was Gen Z’s night on Georgia’s May 21 Election Day: All but one of the youngest cohort of statehouse candidates cruised to victories in metroAtlanta. One big upset stood out in particular, sending shockwaves through the political establishment. That was Gabriel Sanchez’s victory over State Rep. Teri Anulewicz in the Democratic primary for her Cobb County legislative district, which covers parts of Smyrna and Marietta. Sanchez won with 56.8 percent or 2,249 votes – compared with 43.2 percent or 1,711 votes for Anulewicz. Anulewicz, who has represented District 42 since 2017, rose through party ranks to become deputy whip for Georgia’s House Democrats, while serving on key House committees, such as Appropriations and Transportation. Her reputation for working across the aisle earned her a broad base of support, even among Republicans. She won endorsements from a long list of state and local officials, including U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath and the AFL-CIO of Georgia. Her unexpected loss to a 27-year-old waiter and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) may signal a
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The Pitts Road bridge is one of two in Sandy Springs that are part of Ga. 400 bridge replacements project.
Pitts Road bridge reopens by HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — The last of the three bridges over Ga. 400 was set to reopen to traffic May 31 in preparation for the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Express Lanes project. The GDOT pulled forward the Ga. 400 Bridge Replacements project as a part of the phased delivery of the planned Express Lanes project, which will add two lanes in each direction from the North
Springs MARTA Station to McGinnis Ferry Road. One express lane is also planned in each direction from McGinnis Ferry Road to McFarland Parkway, or exit 12, in Forsyth County. Because the three bridges were more than 50 years old, the state needed to replace them with taller, wider structures to fit the planned expansion of Ga. 400. Metro Atlanta commuters may have noticed the construction of three