Atlanta Beltline

[dante2308]

I don't advocate balance. What I advocate is more nuanced than "balance."

I advocate the best option for public promotion and/or expenditure whatever it is. To say you support balance is to say that if we build a highway, one must also build a streetcar. I don't think that kind of policy is sound. I don't think transportation is a quota system.

If the best option is balance then I support that, but I don't support it unless it is the best option. I do however believe in democracy so if the city overwhemingly supports that Beltline, I think they should get it.

Getting off philosophies, what I advocate at this point is an UNBIASED extensive cost-benefit analysis on what to do with transportation in the second decade. We may have just passed and are on the other side of peak oil and that has massive implications completely changing the game from when oil use was exponential and housing market was booming.

Let me be the first to say that Atlanta is NOT going to grow at the same rates it did from 2000 to 2006 in the next six years. Sprawl in Atlanta is not exponential now either. This must be taken into account and I don't think anyone has. It seems like everyone is stuck in 2006 pretending that those days are on the other side of the recession. They are not. Let us figure out what the future holds and evaluate our transportation through that lens.