Is there an express bus route in the future for Buckhead and Cobb County? If so, it could alleviate Buckhead’s cut-through traffic from Cobb.

According to Reporter Newspapers, the Atlanta-Region Transit Link Authority may vote in December to include such a route in its official metro regional transit plan. Such a vote would make the route eligible for state and federal funding.  Denise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead, announced the plan at a September meeting of the Buckhead CID and said estimated annual operating cost would be $436,000, according to the newspaper.  Over at least 10 years the operating and maintenance costs would be $11.1 million, the newspaper reported.

The end points are indefinite, although there is a tentative plan to have the route run between the Tower Place complex in Buckhead and the Marietta Transfer Center Park-and-Ride on South Marietta Parkway. Buckhead’s business district swells by tens of thousands each weekday as workers pour into office buildings and retail outlets.