Signs of life along the BeltLine
June 26, 2009 at 5:39 pm by Debbie Michaud in A&E, EventsWonderRoot’s hosting a good ol’ fashioned sign-makin’ party this Sunday at Eyedrum. What’s the occasion, you ask? Why the BeltLine of course. The proposed BeltLine will cross public rights-of-way at 108 different points throughout the city. To help raise awareness about the project, local artists (and anyone else who’s interested in participating) will gather at 1 p.m. this Sun., June 28 at Eyedrum (280 MLK Drive) to make art signs to place at each of the locations. “Later in the week, WonderRoot artists and volunteers will work throughout the night placing the art at each of the 108 locations,” says the e-mail from WonderRoot co-founder Chris Appleton.
More from Appleton:
“Artists, like most residents of Atlanta, are excited about the BeltLine,” said Chris Appelton, co-founder of WonderRoot. “Yet it seems that most people don’t know how transformative this project will be. It’s our hope that people will get up and go to work next week and see for themselves where the BeltLine will be. Additionally, the city will be full of original public art.”
Come one, come all!
June 27th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
We know the Beltline is transformative – it’s transforming Atlanta into a permanent budget crisis.
How much tax money is going into the endless PR boondoggles to boost the Beltline? That TAD money is supposed to pay off the bonds that Atlanta borrowed to give Wayne Mason a $40mm profit on the stretch he flipped. But the ADA’s unaccountable PR minions seem to have their mitts on it. Since they never plan to put transit on the circle, they must figure they have money enough and to spare to sprinkle around endless feel-good events like this one. Never mind all the useful cops and teachers that we can’t afford to hire because of the tax diversion scam.
Shame on Loaf for breathlessly repeating every press release that emanates from ADA and its various captive Beltlineries. Unless of course they are paying Loaf to stay afloat with some of that TAD tax money , in which case your cooperative attitude is understandable.
June 27th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
From everything my sources have told me, cityzen, this is a bottom-up, grassroots effort. It’s received no funding from official entities.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Since the ADA and its Beltline offshoots are designed to be opaque in their funding and spending, I’m not going to bother researching to prove the point. This particular PR event may receive no tax money directly or indirectly – though that’s unlikely. The general point remains valid. There is massive PR for the Beltline, designed to keep the public sentimentally in favor of a boondoggle that will never offer viable transit. The winners are the land flippers – Wayne Mason, Norfolk Southern, Vulcan, et al. Plus the various officeholders and consultants at ABI and other quangos. The losers: taxpayers and residents whose services have been reduced because taxes are diverted to pay the winners.