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Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

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My knowledge from both a personal and professional level indicate that the Georgia DOT is well funded, efficient and competent. Lord only knows the crisis level if that were not the case. Pure traffic density is the issue.<\/p>\n

The density problem was significantly purposefully created by supposed \u201cenvironmental\u201d groups. The effects of the rapidly developing increasing traffic density has been easily extrapolated for decades. In the late 1990\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s a number of projects were proposed to head it off to a significant degree. But, each project was sued into non-existence in Federal court , one by one. Every suit was brought and financed by non-regional environmental groups ultimately financed by, nobody knows. The Sierra Club was the front group for several suits. Whatever the ultimate purpose of the suits was it did not include the well being of the citizens<\/p>\n

The biggest hit was an outer perimeter to route non-local traffic, both E-W and N-S entirely bypassing metro Atlanta. I75, I85, & I20 all intersect in the middle of Atlanta constituting a large portion of the total. But noooo. Several other major projects were killed.<\/p>\n

You would not believe the competency the GDOT call on to plan and execute MAJOR infrastructure projects. This bunch in FDOT District 3, not so much. They make what would be a 4-5 month project in Atlanta Metro last for literally years. And in the face of rapidly increasing traffic density, the local FDOT\u2019s traffic light timing and coordination is absurdly bad.<\/p>\n

I was \u201cinvolved\u201d with the industry for some time and before I retired couldn\u2019t open my mouth publically.<\/p>\n

Picture below: Ga 400 entering Buckhead area of the city on a Sunday morning. Buckhead was the area in the news a couple of years ago that tried to secede from Atlanta due to non-protection from the APD from the hoards of inner city predators.<\/p>\n

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