(EVERY time I drove on the bottom deck, I'd look up and wonder what this would do in an earthquake. EVERY TIME. Now we know...)
(EVERY time I drove on the bottom deck, I'd look up and wonder what this would do in an earthquake. EVERY TIME. Now we know...)
way too much ‘shiny object syndrome’ in Atlanta development
The best comment in the story. Atlanta has a traffic problem. Cheap action could improve traffic congestion by 20% or 30%.
Atlanta has signage that is designed to confuse.
Atlanta has signage that is dangerous. At the exit from the expressway to arterial streets there are “No Right Turn signs with a red slash through a right turn arrow. The intent is to prevent traffic going wrong way on the expressway. But the red slash was of poor quality tape and has faded to where it is invisible. The result is that drivers think an exit is an entrance. Most discover their error half way down the ramp. I’ve seen innumerable traffic jams where cars are blocked from exiting the expressway and backing up traffic on the expressway due to a wrong-way drivers trying to turn around and correct their mistake.
Atlanta traffic lights are crazy. Near me there is a traffic light at the intersection of a busy street and a dead end street with 1 house. One block further on the busy street is a traffic light on a street with four families. Throughout the entire Atlanta metro area there are traffic light locations that make no sense.
The timing of the traffic lights makes no sense. When the light is at the intersection of a low traffic and high traffic street, why does the low traffic street have equal or more green time on than the green time on the high traffic street.
There are numerous cheap solutions that could improve Atlanta traffic problems by 20% or 30%. But Atlanta and Georgia leaders are all chasing the big, expensive shiny object.
Is that a pic of the Oakland bay bridge? Looks like it.
I don’t worry about the Walton Walker underpass caving in. It’s essentially a short span of tunnel running under about a quarter mile of parkland.
And it was built by Texans to Texas standards.