Comments: I should have known better
Pork aside, what's yr beef with Atlantic Station?
Posted by Wes at November 20, 2003 11:28 PM
Something about it just kind of rubs me the wrong way. Maybe not. But it seems to be yet another solution to a problem Atlanta doesn't really have?
I dunno. I just fail to see how putting an IKEA downtown is going to make all these exurb people want to move intown, and I'm not sure moving intown is even a policy goal we should be pursuing.
It just seems to me that we need radical thinking to solve our transportation and population problems and instead we're just pouring a lot of money into a gentrified neighborhood. It's good for the neighborhood, I suppose, but we need radical ideas in Cumming, not Midtown.
Posted by Chris at November 20, 2003 11:40 PM
I thought I would throw in my two cents on Atlantic Station real quick. There is nothing wrong with trying to add some revitalization to Atlanta's failing downtown. My problem with this planned community, is that is not really planned well. Traffic is a giant problem in Atlanta, and Atlantic Station is just going to add to that headache. Why didn't the alleged planner's put a Marta station into this grand urbanization scheme? Sure, Midtown is right across the new bridge, but on a cold or rainy day, who is going to want to make that walk? You could just stick around for a bus, but that could be 20 minutes in the cold. So what are people going to do? Jump in their cars and drive the distance to work. Adding more traffic, and making downtown even else mobile, and less attractive to outsiders, than it already is.
Posted by Matt at November 21, 2003 08:20 AM
I think getting people to live intown IS a goal devoutly to be wished but I thought for damn sure they would hook it to MARTA.
Posted by Wes at November 23, 2003 02:13 AM
The problem is that the radical solution isn't politically feasable, especially given the GDOT and their myopic tendencies toward getting people from point A to point B without any concern for whatever lies between.
While much of the rest of the transportation planning community is coming to realize that the "obvious solutions" backfire in the long run (building more roads), GDOT continues to play stupid.
Posted by Joe at November 23, 2003 02:51 AM
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