November 2011
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“Instead of merely livable, I think we need to start thinking about how we make...”
– Peter Kageyama, For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and their Places (via lifeonfoot)
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Yet another list to show how bad ATL traffic is
Texas Transportation Institute has released a new list of the top ten most congested highway corridors in the US.
Atlanta highways (sections of 400 and 75) take the top two spots on the list.
As I’ve said before, ranking lists of all varieties are overly popular with the media and are seldom a reliable source of quality info about complex topics. But reliable or not, this is the press that...
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Economist predicts migration from ATL center to...
Jed Kolko, chief economist for online real estate search site Trulia, predicts that low home prices in the outer regions of metro Atlanta will lure urban dwellers away from the city to lower-density areas.
A quote from the AJC article:
“A lot of the search behavior we see is from the central [Atlanta] metro area to some of the smaller lower-density nearby areas.
…Realizing that...
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123 Luckie Street Lofts Building, Downtown Atlanta
lindsayoberstatlanta posts a beautiful photo of the 123 Luckie building across from the Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta. One of my favorite residential buildings downtown. It was built in 2000 and does a nice job of blending in well with the older architecture of the Fairlie-Poplar district (not an easy feat).
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From grimy to green, ATL cleans up its act
In a post on Grist.com, Jad Daley, director of the climate conservation program at the Trust for Public Land, lists “three up-and-coming cities that we wouldn’t normally think of as particularly livable or green.” Atlanta is one of the three he names and the Beltline project is one of the main reasons.
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True enough, there have been some heroic efforts of late to...
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US opinion of ATL's livability continues to slide →
From the Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Between Oct. 10 and 17, Harris Poll surveyed online 2,463 American adults, asking them: “If you could live in or near any city in the country except the one you live in or nearest to now, which would you choose?” Atlanta ranked 15th out of 15 cities in 2011, compared with seventh in 2010. Atlanta ranked as high as third, fourth and second ...
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Could 2012 gas prices sway ATL transportation...
This could prove to be an interesting development during a year when metro Atlantans will be voting on a game-changing tax that funds roads and transit equally.
The L.A. Times reports that 2012 could bring record-high gas prices to US drivers.
Fuel price specialist Bob van der Valk said that oil prices, which have been creeping back toward $100 a barrel, eventually will boost gasoline ...
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Tourists: "Transportation in ATL stinks"
Travel & Leisure Magazine asked its readers to rank 35 of “America’s Favorite Cities” according to various criteria of interest to visitors.
Unsurprisingly, Atlanta scrapes the bottom of the lists for mobility of all kinds — walking, riding transit and driving.
Public transportation and pedestrian-friendliness (ranked #32 out of 35)
Driving Ability (ranked #34 out...
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The cost of car dependency in Atlanta
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports some sobering stats from AAA’s “Crashes vs. Congestion – What’s the Cost to Society?” publication.
…metro Atlanta’s car crashes cost the area $10.8 billion, or $1,979 per person, in 2009. The report also noted 498 deaths and 62,263 injuries related to car crashes in metro Atlanta.
In one year, car crashes cost each of us...
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