This looks and sounds amazing. I would love to see this, it would help stitch East and West Midtown back together. I’m actually thinking how strange it is that I can see the Tech’s sports complex and campus on the west side from my apartment, but I’ve never go there because it’s not easy to get to. Instead I always run to piedmont park, which is at least 2-3 times further.
That might actually work. Just put all our urban interstates underground. Cars can get past in large volume and our city centers remain quiet and connected. It’s a win win
yeah as long as commuters are cool with choking on the smog that will build up underground everyday. commuters get lung cancer, atl has less commuters. win win
"When completed" was the key word in this whole presentation. Knowing Atlanta this project will start in 10 years and complete in another 10. I lived in Midtown for 10 years and when I moved they had plan to convert Juniper St from North Ave to 14th and make it into a garden street called "StreetScape" was supposed to be completed by 2020. I've moved to FL now and they are still sitting on their hands. Sorry Atalnta you just don't have what it takes to get this done. I'd only call beltline as partial success. Even that is not completed yet!
I thought the exact same thing. Everything in America takes forever to complete it's outrageous. China and Dubai can erect things in weeks and we are so behind. The Dallas trinity river project was proposed over 12 years ago and they haven't even started. The list of uncompleted projects all over is ridiculous.
Wow this is incredible. This is exactly the kind of infrastructure that Atlanta needs. I can’t wait to see how this project transforms the entire city.
A great idea, if you can get it done soon. In Atlanta projects like these either take forever or never get done at all. And make sure that the highway tunnel is well-lighted and that those lights are maintained. Greater Atlanta has the poorest freeway lighting in the nation, and GDOT doesn't seem to want to do anything about it!
From WC, All I can say is good luck, it’s going to cost a fortune, and I hope you can reduce the ATL crime rate! My son & daughter-in-law are hopeful but not so sure of success, and they live there!
The crime rate is as bad as other cities. It's going to take the community as a whole to help reduce crime. Don't put it all on the government. They need assistance as well from the residents. The DA is working on taking down the gangs around Atlanta and hopefully it leads to the metro as a whole. Stay positive. Atlanta can be a be an great city for all. Community Teamwork makes the Dream work.
Just saw the renderings for the event space at the park and it's absolutely beautiful. Please don't change the design. It reminds me of a phoenix raising out of ashes.
@@Boxhead42 crime is the result of the problem, not the root of it. If we can figure out a way to have the entire community benefit from these great changes rather than just a select few, we will have a more harmonious outcome. I think the fact that multiple mega projects around the city will increase tax revenue to improve the local schools is a great start!
I like the Connector Project but why break it up with more cross streets. My son goes to Georgia Tech and North Avenue, 5th St and 10th street are plenty of ways to get from Midtown to the Georgia Tech campus and Midtown West further on. Why break up Georgia Tech's campus with more streets cutting through it.
Real Talk... What a beautiful project !!! I As a local REALTOR, I have faith that it will get done. However, I am concerned about the homeless people in and around the area. Also, the inside emergency/hazard lanes on both sides of the freeway should be wider for safety reasons...
American urban planning always amazes me .... Really this highway with uncountable and disgusting number of lanes is only used by "local" traffic? Then simply scrap all the lanes instead of building a park over it. It's a nice excuse like the Boston big dig to not fundamentally change anything about car centricity. You just hide it under a park ... Lame.
@@burdrchitect1680 I believe this project and others are in anticipation of future population growth and higher density in the city which is inevitable with all the new development projects. Reconnecting the city in this way is like adding healthy arteries to increase blood flow and an overall healthier and more productive community
Visitors won't get to see Atlanta. They'll only see a tunnel. And good luck getting to the accident victims stuck inside the traffic-jammed underground tunnel in an emergency when open-air access and fresh air is blocked off and replaced by toxic fire smoke. Leave it open and just build a bike trail grid above it.
I hate when people living in the city try to turn the city into the boondocks. If you want the trees, grass, flowers and animals take yourself to a rural area.
What a DUMB IDEA. I, like many other people, LIKE looking at the skyscrapers and buildings as I am driving down the Connector. I don't want it capped so I'm driving through a dark tunnel, all so you can make traffic miserable for years and make the situation worse than it is. There's already plenty of parks. Stop with this nonsense.
I said the same thing.....who wanna drive through and sit in a congested tunnel breathing in car fumes, while missing out on the city views. The people that's supporting this nonsense have lost their marbles. Atlanta will have more parks than residents if they continue with this foolishness. The east and west connector that runs through the city is what makes Atlanta great. .
1. This being Atlanta, I have bigtime reservations about how well this project actually would be executed. That said, when you are driving, you need to keep your eyes off the buildings and on the damn road. If this makes you do that, that's a good thing. Most Atlanta skyscrapers are hideous Lego boxes anyway, so if you like them you probably have bad taste in architecture. 2. As for "mak[ing] the traffic miserable," the traffic is already miserable, it has been miserable for 40 years, and I daresay most of it is from people who don't actually live in the city of Atlanta. I think this project's intent is to try to reclaim a large strip of land that is currently given over to commuters who don't even live in the city proper. I don't see how that's a bad thing from either a civic standpoint or a commercial one. 3. As a someone who _does_ live in the city proper, why should I care about the windshield vista preferences of people who don't? Especially when some of those people specifically seceded from Atlanta so that that they could better control the affairs of their own towns - a principle I support? I say this as a political conservative whose views get essentially no representation in my own city; I can only imagine how little the Democrats care about what people from Sandy Springs want.