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[yendi]

Great article on what frustrates me about Atlanta, and the hope for things to improve:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/horizon/0602/24out.html

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[yendi]

The thing I miss most about my second-most-recent home was the Marta commute -- a full hour (mainly because of switching buses), which meant lots of pure reading time.

Agreed about the lack in incentive for folks to ride Marta -- folks love their cars way too much here. The other problem, of course, is the lack of any building upwards -- even apartment complexes sprawl.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Yes! This place needs some tall buildings near marta stations, and some decent apartments near marta stations. All the apartments are sprawling 4 story buildings. 5 stories and you have to put in an elevator, I think. I work in busy midtown, and my building is just 7 stories, and, it's a big one for this part of town. There's a few real towers, but not many.

If this city wants to be as big as it is, we need to concentrate some population into higher density stuff, and build up some rails. Put this place on sim city and I could fix it!

[yendi]

Hell yes! I swear, if the city planners here had Sim City, it would solve all sorts of problems (they could even use SimTower and Yoot's Tower to micromanage the buildings).

I understand the reluctance to "ruin" the views with tall buildings that some have, but if that view is ruined by smog, it's a hell of a lot worse, imho.

Of course, I think tall buildings are wonderful, anyway. :-)