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Impetus<\/strong>: for whatever reason, Curbed Atlanta posted an \u201carticle\u201d about the ugly parking garages of Atlanta.\u00a0 Thinly veiled was the subjective commentary that Atlanta has too many parking garages, and that the presence of these colossal concrete dungeons of car storage were inhibiting growth, clogging up space for commerce and potential business and were just plain ugly.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, they\u2019re not entirely wrong in their claims, but the fact of the matter is that it\u2019s not like Atlanta doesn\u2019t need these parking garages.\u00a0 Every single one of the parking garages that are being vilified for simply existing are for the most part essential and often used on a regular basis.\u00a0 If Curbed Atlanta got their wish, and these lots magically ceased to exist, and were immediately replaced with overpriced pretentious boutique shops, overpriced pretentious boutique restaurants, or extremely small parks that provides a tiny bit of aesthetically pleasing green space that will be filled with people who walk their dogs but don\u2019t pick up their shit, where would people park their cars?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The parking lots that would still be in existence would now be able to justify upping the cost of parking by upwards of 300% due to skyrocketing demand, and frankly, limited parking space might not always be the most convenient either.<\/span><\/p>\n Pointed out between the lines is the oft-spouted commentary that Atlanta needs to have a larger, more comprehensive and more reliable mass transit system, and that the existence of one would\u00a0DEFINITELY UNDOUBTEDLY<\/strong>\u00a0eliminate the need for so many ugly colossal parking garages.\u00a0 Although I don\u2019t necessarily fully agree that an improved transit authority would cure all of Atlanta\u2019s notorious traffic issues, I can agree that it would definitely help alleviate a good bit of it.<\/span><\/p>\n It would be fantastic if there was a transit authority that wasn\u2019t MARTA that had trains zipping from Peachtree City to Alpharetta, Douglasville to Covington, Lawrenceville to Union City, Forest Park to Kennesaw, and every little town, sub-community, neighborhood and district that constitutes the Metro Atlanta area.\u00a0 However, that\u2019s never going to ever happen because of county lines, county bureaucracy, and veiled racism.\u00a0 Cobb County is afraid of black people, and Dekalb County can\u2019t get their heads out of their own asses to realize that they\u2019re themselves impeding growth and potential financial gain with their staunch insistence that they want to be a small communal neighborhood that really, really detests all things large, big business and most anything that a hippie would be against.<\/span><\/p>\n People like those who \u201cwrite\u201d for Curbed, like to bitch, moan and whine about issues like the necessity of parking garages and bemoan the need for more mass transit, as if Atlanta were a\u00a0SimCity<\/em>, that could be corrected and fixed at the drop of a hat.\u00a0 As I\u2019m sure most armchair mayors think they could rebuild Atlanta into some sort of societal mecca if it were, in reality such is about as close to impossible as it can be.<\/span><\/p>\n Atlanta can\u2019t magically bulldoze the Georgia Power building and Grady Memorial Hospital to straighten out the Downtown Connector from zig-zagging, and then rebuild both seven spaces apart and suddenly adjacent.\u00a0 Train tracks can\u2019t be built over existing architecture, and tunnels can\u2019t be bored out through its already tumultuous sewer system.\u00a0 It would be fantastic if the Georgia Dome could be torn down at the drop of the hat and replaced with the Sphincter set to replace it instantaneously.\u00a0 Turner Field could be destroyed right away, and the new stadium would be immediately erected up in Marietta.\u00a0 Police stations could be plopped right into SW Atlanta and crime would immediately drop in the presence of increased law.\u00a0 And green space could be put everywhere!!\u00a0♥<\/span><\/p>\n Just talking about Atlanta as if it were a SimCity really makes me want to play SimCity and re-create Atlanta as best as I could just to see what would happen virtually, but as it pertains to reality, Atlanta is not a SimCity, and fixes that many people seem to be absolutely certain would solve a litany of problems, cannot happen that quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, the supposed ugly parking garages of Atlanta all serve a major purpose in our fair city, and pointless exercises like trying to shame them is pointless, does not head remotely in the direction of any possible solution and is a waste of time.<\/span><\/p>\n The post by Curbed Atlanta is a prime example of pointless click-bait and that being said, I\u2019m going to remove the link from my post so that nobody else supports it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impetus: for whatever reason, Curbed Atlanta posted an \u201carticle\u201d about the ugly parking garages of Atlanta.\u00a0 Thinly veiled was the subjective commentary that Atlanta has too many parking garages, and that the presence of these colossal concrete dungeons of car storage were inhibiting growth, clogging up space for commerce and potential business and were just … Continue reading Discussing an issue with no possible 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