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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).
]]>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…
]]>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).
]]>Inman Park.
Sure that was more than a hundred years ago, but Georgians never forget!
]]>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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