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Originally Posted by Andrea
I've always lived inside the city limits of Atlanta, and there isn't one single place within the city for which I need a freeway. I'd certainly like to see better intersections, more connectivity, better designed surface streets, and more options for non-automobile transportation. But I don't need freeways slicing up my city.
Atlanta has boomed in spite of the freeways, not because of them. There's a place for these mega limited access roads, but it's not in the middle of our established urban areas.
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Andrea, I'm happy for you that you live in the city and have no need for freeways. But the fact is that 90% of Atlantan live outside the city limits and do need freeways. Freeways facilitate commerce and pleasure pursuits all over the region, and fuel the growth that we all enjoy. Like the rivers that built older cities, the Downtown Connector moves people and commerce to, from and through Atlanta.
Perhaps your perspective is limited by your more localized life, and that's OK. But I would think the demonstrated choices of 90% of the population better indicate that Atlanta has grown because of -- not in spite of -- Atlanta's freeway system. Atlanta is not and never will be New York or Boston, and it is doing just fine as the city it is.
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