AJC, 2/24/19 page A1
article, The Banking Capital that Georgia Lawmakers created in Charlotte” is an
indictment of how wrong things can go in the Gold Dome. It tells a tale of how
Ga Banking Regulations restricted branch banking, favored the big banks and
allowed the small banks to fail.
The merger of Sun
Trust Bank with BB&T will result in the headquarters leaving downtown Atlanta
and going to Charlotte.
Atlanta is a good
place to live if you don’t have to go anywhere. We live in continual traffic
gridlock, because we ignored expanding our road and highway systems to
establish a highway grid. Instead of a grid, we have a circle.
The circle is I-285
that was built as a bypass that wasn’t far enough out of town. This worked well
in 1983 when the population of Atlanta Metro was 3 million. We were able to
handle local and interstate traffic sharing the highways.
But when I-75 and I-85
were built through downtown Atlanta, it was clear that population expansion was
going to cause gridlock. Now at almost 6
million, we are using roads designed for 3 million. The Gold Dome failed to
continue highway development in Atlanta Metro for 40 years and now we’re
playing catch-up with toll roads.
Charlotte NC Metro
population is 2.4 million with 3,198 square miles of land area. Atlanta GA Metro population is 5.8 million
with 8,376 square miles of land area.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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