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Metro Atlanta ranked as No. 7 in the U.S. for worst traffic congestion, between Miami and Houston, respectively. That’s despite billions of dollars that state government and now private entities continue to pour into highway expansions.
That’s because highway expansion doesn’t fix traffic.
your quality of life will improve with more housing and scalable transportation. If nothing changes, your quality of life will be worse. It’s not rocket science. Progress is just sitting there waiting for someone to make it happen.
Georgia Department of Transportation is planning two additional lanes in each direction on the east side of I-285 for express lanes.
Towards the bottom of the page is a link to an online comment card.
Atlanta’s growth model is dying—choked by the escalating costs of housing and autocentric transportation, alongside wages that can’t keep up. No simple fix will transform this vicious cycle into a virtuous one. But some guiding principles should guide our search for reinvention.
Beltline rail advocates pushed back against the plan, concerned…the rail would never actually happen. Some worried it would fall into a bucket of other Atlanta projects with no finish line
Kind of weird to have news of a complete Beltline rail plan after the recent news about abandoning Eastside rail. The rail advocates have valid concerns. Atlanta has no shortage of plans, just execution.