ATLDOT reports major 2025 maintenance and a $1.5 billion capital pipeline
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Commissioner Solomon Cabaniss briefed the committee on 2025 work—potholes, resurfacing, ADA ramps, Vision Zero progress—and outlined a $1.5 billion capital program, an 18-month comprehensive transportation plan, and procurement approaches to accelerate construction.
Atlanta — Solomon Cabaniss, Commissioner of the Atlanta Department of Transportation, told the Transportation Committee that ATLDOT ramped up maintenance and capital delivery in 2025 and is preparing to accelerate work into 2026.
Cabaniss said the department "filled over 10,000 potholes in 2025," installed thousands of signs, repaired more than 5,000 traffic signals with GDOT cooperation, built over 3,000 ADA ramps and installed more than eight miles of bike lanes. He said the department resurfaced many more miles in 2025 than in 2024 and highlighted the department's Vision Zero work, reporting a 45% reduction in fatalities since 2021 in citywide measures presented by staff.
Cabaniss reviewed active projects and said ATLDOT manages about a $1.5 billion program of capital work across multiple initiatives (Moving Atlanta Forward, RENEW, general capital improvements). He described procurement changes — an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) approach — intended to shorten the time between design and construction and "get shovels in the ground" faster.
Council members pressed for detail on service-level agreements (SLAs), emergency signal repair performance, and staffing shortfalls. Council Member Dustin Hillis noted that city surface streets recorded two more fatalities in 2025 than in 2024 and asked that the department clearly attribute reductions across jurisdictions. Cabaniss acknowledged reporting lags and committed to updating SLA metrics and addressing staffing and contracting bottlenecks.
On community implementation, staff said they will continue coordination with neighborhood volunteers for tactical urbanism projects and that Sylvan Road work is scheduled to begin Feb. 16. Commissioner Cabaniss said the downtown AURA-funded work and airport-related projects will accelerate ahead of major events. "Over the next months you will see downtown under construction even more than you see now," he said.
The committee asked for follow-up details on SLAs, pavement markings, street-sign staffing, micro-mobility procurement timing (vendors expected on the street by summer), and the status of federally funded projects such as the Lee Street Trail.
