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Originally Posted by SteveD
Let's beat a dead horse. Atlanta's in town traffic is better than it's nationwide reputation, and better than most larger metros in town traffic in the US, even those with much more expansive rapid transit. Atlanta has respectable mass transit, with a promise for much more, especially among it's sunbelt peers.
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Respectable by this joke of a country's public transit standards isn't really saying much, which is arguably "respectable" by comparison as it is. Houston and Dallas were making decent transit investments as well despite declining ridership.
Atlanta has some of the worst congestion in the world (by hours spent in traffic) and is only behind the Bay Area, New York and LA in the US:
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/atlanta-tr...orld-study-finds/C6JR110E1z9xZeGGmjJ2HM/ http://inrix.com/scorecard/
Not sure why all the homers and transplants in the thread are desperately trying to coddle the city's traffic congestion problems, calling it better than most US cities is a flat-out lie. Atlanta is an extremely low-density metro by design with no grid and transportation mostly served by highways and spaghetti junctions, traffic issues aren't surprising. Unless there's some sort of Haussmann style renovation in the city's future it's always going to have a severe disadvantage in this area. Public transit can only do so much without density.
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