Removing Freeways

[ghettopalmetto]

Atlanta's congestion is the result of what I mentioned earlier, too many single occupancy vehicles, poor land use decisions, and long commutes. Freeways are not the problem its the people who use them that are!

1. The single-occupancy vehicles are the result of highly dispersed patterns of settlement and employment., which are in turn due to:

2. Poor land-use decisions made by PLANNERS, who assume that everyone will drive everywhere. When congestion hits, everyone moves...

3. OUTWARD to escape the traffic, lengthening commutes. The state DOT, in it's infinite wisdom, sees all the new subdivisions the PLANNERS have approved, and widens the freeways again, anticipating a growth in traffic [[that somehow ALWAYS materializes--go figure!).

If freeways are not the problem, why did Atlanta's suburban boom only occur after the multi-billion dollar "Freeing the Freeways" program of the 1980s was completed? Are we supposed to assume--like you do--that the bad traffic there is merely the result of the sum of several million incompetent, individual drivers?