It was sometimes rowdy, sometimes fractious, but in the end leaders of communities throughout Metro Atlanta did something they've never done before. They agreed on a regional transportation plan. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called it a trying process – attempting to whittle away $300-million from a region-wide transportation wish list that included projects ranging from the Beltline to the Northwest Corridor Rail project along US 41. “Although a couple of times, we walked up to the edge in terms of offending one another,†Reed said after the meeting of the Transportation Roundtable Executive Board, “at the end of the day,...
