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Priorities and distractions
The AJC breathlessly reported that BRN supporters recently turned up at a MARTA Board meeting to denounce the board’s decision to cancel the Eastside Beltline streetcar.
How vast was this protest? A whopping 20 speakers, or 0.0037% of the city’s population, who proceeded to yell at MARTA Board members and accuse them of selling out to Big Oil, a group that I’m sure was just in a panic about a two-mile-long streetcar extension.
Water & traffic may flow, but don't try bathing in an expressway
Here's a question for you to consider: if a road is congested, should it be widened? If you answered yes, can you name a major urban highway expansion project that didn't revert within five years to the same average traffic speed as before the expansion? Don’t try too hard, because they don’t exist.