Oh man what a friggin joke. I drive all around Atlanta in a medium duty(35 ft long) truck and I see first hand the lunacy of this damn place. Most driveable? More like most likely to drive you crazy. Here is the thing that most out of staters dont understand about our "Most Driveable" town: You have approximately 15,000 local municipalities who have taken it upon themselves to make sure that you spend the most time in thier lovely little hovel as possible. The end result? Traffic light hell. Not one damn light anywhere is timed to let you make one to the next ( Please see : Peachtree in Buckhead, anywhere in Alpharetta and anywhere in Woodstock)As a result you have massive amounts of cars racing light to light, bumper to bumper, and boom! stop and go traffic begins. Then these people, already agitated that it takes them a half hour to just get a few miles , proceed to our illustrious highways. Where they encounter 2-2.5 hour commutes just to drive 30 or so miles(my wife actually endured this for several years)
The other thing here in Atlanta we have is unbridled growth coupled with an extremely poor infrastructure to handle the resulting traffic. You would think that these municipalities would try to limit growth, but they are only concerned with the tax dollars that will flow from the homes they allow to be built. The feds have forbidden the use of federal tax dollars for road improvements until the metro area gets the pollution problem under control. But here is the paradox: The constant building of homes as far as 40 miles from Atlanta, on roads that cannot keep up with the traffic, leads to more cars sitting still farther and farther away from Atlanta. Idling cars are claimed to be more polluting,so just widen the roads right? Nope cant do that! So the cars keep on piling up on top of each other and pollution gets worse every day and we cant get the roads widened to help alleviate the pollution.
But we are one of the most drivable cities in the US!!!!!!! WOOHOO!
Peace
Lounatik
The other thing here in Atlanta we have is unbridled growth coupled with an extremely poor infrastructure to handle the resulting traffic. You would think that these municipalities would try to limit growth, but they are only concerned with the tax dollars that will flow from the homes they allow to be built. The feds have forbidden the use of federal tax dollars for road improvements until the metro area gets the pollution problem under control. But here is the paradox: The constant building of homes as far as 40 miles from Atlanta, on roads that cannot keep up with the traffic, leads to more cars sitting still farther and farther away from Atlanta. Idling cars are claimed to be more polluting,so just widen the roads right? Nope cant do that! So the cars keep on piling up on top of each other and pollution gets worse every day and we cant get the roads widened to help alleviate the pollution.
But we are one of the most drivable cities in the US!!!!!!! WOOHOO!
Peace
Lounatik
Facebook
Twitter