Atlanta Metro car
traffic gridlock encourages residents to just stay at home. All household needs
are usually limited to groceries, household needs and gasoline and we have
local stores near home like barber shops, pharmacies, hardware stores, auto
service, restaurants and fast food venues. We do use our cars to drive out of
our neighborhoods for kid’s sports and to commute to work,
Gridlock could be
reduced if we returned to K-8 neighborhood grade schools where kids could walk
or bike to school. Now the neighborhood grade school only goes to grade 5 and
we end up driving the kids to school or having them take a bus to middle school
for grades 6 – 8. Then they go to high school for grades 9-12.
The absence of an
adequate highway grid across Atlanta creates the gridlock.
The best highway grid
is in St. Louis Mo. This grid includes I-70, I-64, I-55 and I-44 going east and
west and I-170 and I-270 going north and south. St Louis Metro has a population
of 2.8 million. This highway grid was planned in the 1960s and built in the
1970s and 1980s.
The Atlanta bi-pass
I-285 was built in 1963, when the population of Atlanta Metro was 1.6 million.
It is now 5 million and I-285 can no longer handle local and interstate
traffic.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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