Comments on: Atlanta city infrastructure best in country?

By: wesleywhatwhat

wesleywhatwhat — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:27:20 +0000

keith, i want to live in your world.

By: Turner

Turner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:09:53 +0000

The Weekend traffic we have now is probably where our weekday traffic should be.

All other cities mentioned have mass transit systems that at least attempt to alleviate traffic.

Tolls and all that other stuff as mentioned before. ie: at least the cities are getting compensated for it.

By: DaleC

DaleC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:03:59 +0000

4 months in Houston
6 months in Raleigh Durham
Numerous multi-day trips to Chicago, Dallas, LA, Miami, Tampa, D.C., Orlando, Philadelphia. I would spend the two days before or after the weekend on business and the weekend for fun.

I guess all those traffic experts don’t know what they are talking about either, huh?

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:50:31 +0000

I should clarify my comment above in that I am talking about weekend traffic – something Atlanta just does not have. Weekday traffic, we are all bad.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:47:04 +0000

Seriously, how many of you have spent significant time in other cities? I grew up in New York. It was common practice to crawl on the LIE between Manhattan and Nassau County on any given Sunday afternoon. I spent a summer in Chicago on business often going between the far SW suburbs (Joliet) and Downtown – I-55 was a mess for no apparent reason. When I was in LA 2 yrs ago, I-5 was backed up from Santa Ana to Downtown, again…no construction, no accidents, no events.
I really wonder how many people who constantly complain about things here have spent time in other cities for some perspective.

By: Turner

Turner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:19:30 +0000

I’m not sure I would call what we have in the city as roads either.

More like a collection of the most violent holes in the earth of perfect rim destroying size. Or the ‘fixed’ version of the hole that is a giant steel automobile launch pad with giant hooks.

I go through about 4 tires every 2 years.

By: rule .303

rule .303 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:09:20 +0000

As I continued to read the story, I kept thinking to myself that the words, “April Fools,” would appear at the bottom of the story. The same goes for Keith’s comment ;)

By: DaleC

DaleC — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:50:09 +0000

Keith – can you pick some lottery numbers for me because you are the luckiest dude I know.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:35:31 +0000

People complain about how Atlanta has the worst traffic of anywhere. Yeah, our traffic is bad…but in 17 years of living here, I have never, ever had to sit in traffic on freeways here on the weekend for NO reason like I have had to do in…Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Washington. In all of those places, I have sat in miles and miles of backed-up freeway traffic on the weekends for no apparent reason (event, accident, etc…)

By: Turner

Turner — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:45:09 +0000

Other Cities at least make some money off the traffic to regulate the demand. I don’t see having a cheap system as a plus as a resident.

If anything we have too much traffic that does not contribute to the infrastructure (in the sense that the cost to service them is more) The traffic is also choking out the real commerce that we need which is tourism to attract residents.