i'm also from tech, and i am definitely happy not to see the connector whenever possible. it's ugly, it smells of exhaust and it makes all of the land immediately next to it mostly undesirable. my vote is to flood the connector. it would create the geographic water feature that atlanta is missing... the rise in property value along the new waterfront could be tapped to pay for the cost of the project... we're going to have traffic anyway, might as well move it somewhere else
