Essentially, racism was the downfall. Being a native myself, I knew by 6 I needed to leave downtown Atlanta. There is literally nothing down there. And because of the 96 Olympics, no native black or otherwise lives south of midtown or even Peachtree corridor.
Gen Z love for urbanism just shows how ignorant they are of 70s-90s city life: the homelessness, drug addiction, and unemployment. Yall should really go live your big ideals instead of complaining about why things are like Boomers/Gen X
I think the high use only shows how little green spaces the area has. This all started because the city doubted public opinion there wasn't enough green space. And after doing research about this. Found Atlanta to be one of the worst for green space. Atlanta spent decades of just pouring concrete and paving. Maybe they can build off the beltline with some neighborhood parks?
Nobody who lives in ATL visits downtown except for business. But 5 mins from downtown is Krog st entrance to the beltline, and that's miles of modern walkable shopping, art installations, parks, eateries and breweries. The beltline connects a diverse array of neighborhoods and people use it to walk, bike or scoot around through lush forests and neighborhoods. Downtown will never be a thing because no one wants to spend their saturday in a concrete jungle.
The idea of transit radiating out from Atlanta is flawed. It's for city boosters but most of the metro population is in the North metro and needs transit between the Northern suburbs. Top-end 285 HOT lanes will start to offer this.
Georgia needs another major metropolitan area really badly. We're a BIG state, so we can't have home values determined by how close to Atlanta they are.
This explains a lot. I just went to visit ATL and we stayed downtown. We walked to the aquarium and Coca Cola museum….but I immediately noticed how “dead” downtown was…it was rather shocking. After that, me and my lady walked a few blocks to find a bottle. I had an uneasy feeling the entire time. Nothing but homeless people and the smell of urine. I can’t imagine walking some of those same streets once the sun goes down……
I feel like a large number of opposers think that rail would REPLACE the bike/ped trail. It's like they don't see the huge space set aside separate from the existing trail.
Atlanta is so decentralized. I’ve lived here for 22 years, and Midtown is the real Downtown. 75/85 bisecting the city makes it impossible to create organic continuity. That’s why there are nice districts in the city, but to get from one of those to another one, you have to drive, often on the highway or through mediocre/bland (or dangerous) neighborhoods.
Self-driving cars could be used more efficiently throughout the day, rather than sitting idle in parking lots. This could lead to a reduction in the total number of vehicles needed to meet transportation demands
Rideshare and Taxis already do this. Self driving cars would still tend to cluster around high demand destinations (Airports, Hotels, etc.) anyway because it's more profitable to do so, meaning you'd still need more vehicles to provide adequate capacity and coverage compared to transit + TOD. The only advantage SDCs have over Uber/Lyft is removing the need to compensate the driver, and even then that would probably be nullified by the need to maintain the fleet (rather than having the driver maintain/register the vehicle).
Everyone around downtown knows everywhere that isnt downtown is always 10x better. Every county is basically its own city with a completely different vibe, look and thing to do.
The Beltline is not a viable transit option it has become an atraction ! What they should do is a better way to get there from different areas of the city or metro area...
I’ll tell you why. They built dumb things that no one wants to come to. Coca Cola…cool.. aquarium..cool. Civic rights museum and college football museum… no one gives a **** lol.
Atlanta has Midtown, Bucktown, and also Perimeter - Sandy Spring. These are newer and more bustling commercial areas. Downtown Atlanta has never been The Move. Atlanta sprawl vs a tighter city core in Chicago Loop might be due to zoning.
Ayy an Atlanta transit channel! I live in Portland now, but I moved to the west coast in 2021 after living in ATL my whole life. Lived in SF for a bit. Obviously things are a little better over here, but I'm still holding out for hope for my home city to seize on the massive opportunity for improvement! Not just new transit, but improving the existing transit. I got around without a car in Atlanta for years, but it just sucked. I think the thing that made it frustrating was that I knew it didn't have to
Such a socialist agenda in all your videos. Vilifying Uber for using“VC money” which was voluntary in n the part of VC investors. Yet you love the government stealing money from everybody without their consent to fund useless streetcar.
