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Impetus<\/a>: Atlanta Regional Commission proposes ideas that would cost about $59 billion dollars which could theoretically alleviate traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n I hate to write about it every time something like this comes up, but there\u2019s something about the topic of Atlanta\u2019s incessantly horrendous traffic that sets me off.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because so often times is the case, I\u2019ve suffered a particularly bad morning of traffic when I get to work and eventually begin reading the news, there\u2019s something about the fair city\u2019s bad traffic that just aggravates me.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, the posted link is basically a story about how some probably likely crooked bureaucrats want nearly 25 years of a boatload of money to do a whole lot of nothing AKA attempt to \u201csolve\u201d Atlanta\u2019s traffic woes.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I\u2019m deliberately trying to sound pessimistic towards the idea of alleviating traffic, it\u2019s just the fact of the matter, conclusive and succinct is that Atlanta traffic is unsolvable, and that nothing short of changing the topography of the entire city, destroying existing, and creating an entirely new, actually planned, road system and implementing an efficient and planned mass transit system, would actually help.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In other words, nothing realistic can really be done about Atlanta\u2019s traffic, and putting any money towards such futile endeavors is a waste and serves no purpose other than padding pockets of people who are probably aware of such impossibilities and are taking full advantage of trying to get paid to do nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, it\u2019s a gigantic waste trying to \u201csolve\u201d Atlanta\u2019s traffic.\u00a0 For every idea that could feasibly work, there would be a million people voting to oppose it, because it throws a monkey wrench into their daily commutes and routes.\u00a0 Personally, I like the idea of demolishing all parts of Interstate 20 within the perimeter, and eliminating the necessity of intersecting interstates in the heart of the city, but there would be about a quarter million people from Douglasville, Covington, Alabama and whatever other east and west places of the city that would be obviously objective to that idea.<\/span><\/p>\n Trying to expand MARTA or create other forms of mass transportation is the popular solution that anyone who\u2019s ever played Sim City is aware of, but the one reality that isn\u2019t a factor in Sim City is the veiled racist nature of the population.\u00a0 It would be a fantastic idea if there was convenient, reliable and expedient rail systems that took people from Peachtree City, Roswell, Alpharetta and Stone Mountain, but on the flipside, the residents of said communities would very much balk at the notion that such a rail system conversely gives all the perceived blacks and other unsavory minorities access to them.\u00a0 Curmudgeon I may sound, but the reality is that every time such an idea is proposed, such is the precise rationale to why it is snuffed out immediately, perhaps not in quite such succinct terms.\u00a0 I like to call it \u201cthe Springfield Mall Effect,\u201d that affluent, predominantly white communities wish to avoid.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s really nothing complicated about Atlanta\u2019s traffic, and why it exists \u2013 curvy roads, intersecting highways, a lack of mass transportation, and an excess of drivers on the road.\u00a0\u00a0 Simply put, the city was poorly planned, if it was even planned at all in the first place, and it\u2019s developed and grown too far gone to be remotely capable of rectifying its problems. \u00a0As conducive to the flow of traffic it would be, if the 75\/85 Connector could be snapped into a straight line instead of the weaving S through the heart of the city it is today, a gazillion dollars-worth of real estate would have be deconstructed and then reconstructed, including stuff like Grady Memorial Hospital, Georgia Power, the ScumTrust and Bank of America skyscrpaers.\u00a0 Obviously, none of that is going to happen, but it is a good example of how problematic it can get when simply too much shit is developed, right onto the edge of the roads outright; needless to say, there is zero chance of any lane expansion or construction that doesn\u2019t necessitate the outright closure of roads could ever realistically happen.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that there is nothing that can be done about Atlanta traffic.\u00a0 Until companies evolve past the Stone Age and realize that it is very much possible for employees to work remotely in many cases (like mine), we\u2019re all just going to have to suffer and slog through the city\u2019s shitty streets with 2 million other miserable commuting saps on a daily basis and have no other alternative than to simply deal with it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impetus: Atlanta Regional Commission proposes ideas that would cost about $59 billion dollars which could theoretically alleviate traffic. I hate to write about it every time something like this comes up, but there\u2019s something about the topic of Atlanta\u2019s incessantly horrendous traffic that sets me off.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because so often times is the case, … Continue reading Nothing (realistically) can be done about it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,143,10],"class_list":["post-38184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38186,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184\/revisions\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}