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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

HassleCat

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5. Atlanta, too

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 5, 2015, 10:54 AM

Jun 2015

Atlanta build freeways the way third graders make paper snowflakes at Christmas. There was a huge stink about the latest beltway project because it condemned a whole bunch of land owned by the less affluent, and failed to improve public transit for poor and working class folks. Last I heard, they were forced to improve bus and rail connections as sort of a "condition" of condemning all that land.

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