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Originally Posted by shivtim
As for not selling a project like this without road improvements - what about the Beltline? It's a perfect example of a large-scale infrastructure project in Atlanta that involves no improvements for motor vehicles, and in many cases even slows down car traffic due to new pedestrian crossings and road diets (e.g. Irwin street crossing; Bill Kennedy).
All of these problems are fixable in the proposal.
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While I get your angle, there's a huge difference between a largely abandoned rail corridor mostly in SFH neighborhoods and one of the busiest stretches of highway on the continent that ppl will need access to.