Overview

The Ronald Reagan Parkway Extension Project has been proposed to relieve the severe traffic congestion currently experienced in Gwinnett County, and especially to improve the accessibility to Interstate 85. The proposed project is located in the southwest area of Gwinnett County and to the southeast of I-85. It includes extending Ronald Reagan Parkway from Pleasant Hill Road to I-85 for a distance of approximately three miles.

The project is currently in the Pre-Development Agreement phase, an early step in which Gwinnett County and the Skanska Team work collaboratively to determine if the project is feasible from technical, environmental, financial and public perspectives. The project was procured as a "public private partnership," which is a performance-based contract that allows the private sector (Skanska) to provide funding directly to the project. Widely used in Europe and Latin America, public private partnerships (or "PPPs") have proven to be responsible methods for delivering vital infrastructure faster and more efficiently than public sector budgets alone could enable.