Posted Feb 6, 2007, 1:38 AM
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Apathetic...and Loving It
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 1,225
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Originally Posted by Andrea
When the highway was planned back in the 1940s, people thought Atlanta would grow around a central downtown employment center, ringed by suburban commuters who would drive into the city each day. However, that's obviously not what happened. The connector is the vestige of a half century old plan that, for a variety of reasons, really never came to fruition. It needs to be removed so that the city of Atlanta can heal the wounds from its difficult decades, and begin to develop a true urban character.
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...and GDOT still thought this in the 1980s with "Freeing the Freeways  :
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