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re: The GA-400/I-285 interchange in Atlanta
Posted on 5/26/23 at 12:52 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Posted on 5/26/23 at 12:52 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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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.
The Outer Perimeter project would've been another sprawl-generating machine (basically like I-285 but 25 years later), especially since developers and politicians were buying up land near proposed interchanges in order to get rich. Even GDOT at the time viewed the project as an economic development generator rather than a traffic reliever.
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Some didn't want to do it because it would "encourage migration to that area."
It absolutely would've made it worse.
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Posted on 5/26/23 at 3:12 pm to Wally Sparks
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The Outer Perimeter project would've been another sprawl-generating machine (basically like I-285 but 25 years later), especially since developers and politicians were buying up land near proposed interchanges in order to get rich. Even GDOT at the time viewed the project as an economic development generator rather than a traffic reliever.
It absolutely would've made it worse.
Worse than what?
People were already there, and many more have come without a corridor that would have allowed many trucks to traverse between 75 and 85 without going into Atlanta.
You must have been one of the ones who said no. So not building it accomplished what exactly, less traffic, less growth?
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