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Rant: Everyone in this city acts like the BeltLine is the second coming
I was down by Piedmont Park last weekend and this guy started going on about how the BeltLine is saving Atlanta. Look, I get it, it's a nice path. But I've lived in Grant Park for 12 years now and I watched the rent on my street jump $800 a month since they finished that Eastside Trail. Three years ago my neighbor got priced out after 15 years here. It's a bike lane with condos attached, not a miracle. Am I the only one who thinks we're paying too much for a paved walking path?
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max_schmidt7727d agoTop Commenter
Man it's wild how every city has that one "savior" project now. I remember when they said the streetcar would fix everything and now it's just a tourist thing. Same pattern everywhere.
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thomas.river27d ago
Streetcars never fixed traffic, they just moved the bottleneck around. Did the city actually promise it would be some kind of transit revolution or was that just wishful thinking from the boosters? Because the pitch usually sounds like it'll solve everything from parking to pollution, then three years later nobody rides it except tourists and the occasional drunk person. Curious what the original sales pitch was in your town. Was it supposed to be economic development or actual daily transportation?
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thomasb4127d ago
Did anyone actually believe a streetcar was gonna fix traffic or was it just the cheapest thing they could sell voters?
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