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re: The GA-400/I-285 interchange in Atlanta
Posted on 5/26/23 at 7:43 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Posted on 5/26/23 at 7:43 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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They are putting in HOT lanes. It sucks right now but will be worth it in the end.
Speaking as someone who worked on the early stages of these projects, the express toll lane projects GDOT is planning are a massive grift that won't actually fix the congestion problem (and will cost well into the $10+ billion mark). That money would be better used expanding MARTA.
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 7:50 am to Wally Sparks
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Speaking as someone who worked on the early stages of these projects, the express toll lane projects GDOT is planning are a massive grift that won't actually fix the congestion problem (and will cost well into the $10+ billion mark). That money would be better used expanding MARTA.
I agree.
Posted on 5/26/23 at 7:54 am to Wally Sparks
Georgia should have started the outer perimeter back in the 90s, but they didn't. Atlanta will suffer for that failure for a long, long time.
Some didn't want to do it because it would "encourage migration to that area." We were looking in those areas back then, and people were already there, GA 20 was already there and it was basically going where the outer perimeter would have gone. Now there are even more people up there and GA 20 is no substitute for an actual interstate.
They will finish the new 400 interchange one day and it will help, it too was sorely needed.
But there is no easy fix for Atlanta traffic. You have considerably more people in metro Atlanta than in the entire state of Louisiana.
Some didn't want to do it because it would "encourage migration to that area." We were looking in those areas back then, and people were already there, GA 20 was already there and it was basically going where the outer perimeter would have gone. Now there are even more people up there and GA 20 is no substitute for an actual interstate.
They will finish the new 400 interchange one day and it will help, it too was sorely needed.
But there is no easy fix for Atlanta traffic. You have considerably more people in metro Atlanta than in the entire state of Louisiana.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 12:06 pm to Wally Sparks
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That money would be better used expanding MARTA.
MARTA is so bad people who live in the city where it actually has service don't/won't use it. MARTA isn't ever going to go out to the burbs nor does it need to. Fix it in the city first. Its one big inefficient mess.
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