define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: How to make an Atlanta street http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/ One part facial hair. Two parts moxy. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:44:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Time for UU blog award nominations» Making Chutney http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/comment-page-1/#comment-14783 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:44:53 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/#comment-14783 […] How to Make an Atlanta Street. What’s a blog without a […]

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By: chutney http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/comment-page-1/#comment-9615 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:26:31 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/#comment-9615 AU, I had no idea about the GP policy. That explains so, so much.

Scott, it isn’t the Inman Parks where it’s a problem—it’s the major streets. (By the way, I live just down the way from Inman. Nice neighborhood your family built there.)

Ruth, a friend of mine was in Atlanta for a few weeks, maybe a year or two back. He drove a truck, and driving in Atlanta freaked him out. I had an easier time driving in Boston, and I say that now after have lived here longer than I lived in Boston (so it’s not a lack of familiarity).

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By: AtlantaUnitarian http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/comment-page-1/#comment-9552 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:37:41 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/#comment-9552 Have to mention this one –

Spring Street is one-way south in Midtown, but one-way north in Downtown. Somewhere there is a space-time warp that prevents all of these cars from colliding into each other at full speed…

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By: Ruth http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/comment-page-1/#comment-9544 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:17:32 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/#comment-9544 Oh, yes. I’ll never forget when we first came house-hunting in Atlanta. The rental car agency didn’t have our reserved compact car, so put us in an SUV instead. I’d never driven a large car and thought I was going to hit anything and everything. Just a few more inches in each lane would have made a world of difference.

My favorite parts of Atlanta driving and navigation, though, are the streets which change names every few blocks (or at least change spellings, i.e. Clairemont to Clairmont).

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By: Scott Wells http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/comment-page-1/#comment-9540 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:29:02 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/#comment-9540 Well I take exception! The Wellses were on the ground floor of an important expansion of Atlanta urban livability.

Inman Park.

Sure that was more than a hundred years ago, but Georgians never forget!

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By: AtlantaUnitarian http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/comment-page-1/#comment-9538 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:18:10 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/2007/03/18/how-to-make-an-atlanta-street/#comment-9538 Chutney,

Oh, I’ve been missing your series on transportation! But oh I do have so much to say!!

Well, on this subject let me say that any real city buries its utility poles. They’re unsightly and they inhibit development and transportation and are just in the way. But Georgia Power’s policy is that they *have* to use above-ground utility poles because they are legally required to use the least-cost method to serve their customers. This is something I think we need to change with legistation. Here’s my idea: Georgia Power has to match dollar-for-dollar, the money of anyone who wants to bury their lines. So if a city or a developer wants to bury lines, Georgia Power pays half the cost.

Needless to say, this would make the trees very happy.

And yes, we need to get rid of all the Bradford Pears. I think they’re on their way out, eventually…. I don’t know anyone who plants them anymore…

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