Comments on: Decatur Street Narrowing; Some Angry, Others Happy

By: Brian Pearce

Brian Pearce — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:37:27 +0000

Good point. The main result of the project was congestion and resulting traffic diversion (the goal of beautification was not realized). Employees of GSU’s neighbors (CNN, state and federal buildings, Philips Arena, remaining Marietta Sreet businesses) are being prodded to take alternate routes away from “campus” (e.g., Forsyth Street, Edgewood). The effects of GSU’s clogging of this major downtown artery would be relieved somewhat if the City of Atlanta would: (1) make Edgewood a true 4-lane road by taking away parking spaces in portions which have become congested by diverted drivers from Dekalb and other counties east of the city; (2) start ticketing drivers who block long lines of traffic by entering major intersections that they foreseeably could not clear to get home “one light sooner”); and (3) ticket or move along drivers who park their cars illegally during rush hour along Forsyth and other roads parallel to Marietta Street/Decatur St.

By: Brian Pearce

Brian Pearce — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:17:13 +0000

Decatur Street was perfectly walkable before the road narrowing. I go to GSU frequently and cross Decatur Sreet on foot when I do. I also drive on Decatur Street from Decatur Street to Atlanta–a thoroughfare in which we collectively have a lot invested (reversible lanes on Dekalb Avenue, large bridge over the merge, etc.). I’m still scratching my head over the notion that Decatur Street needed double-wide sidewalks. Even by Atlanta standards, these sidewalks were not “crowded”. If GSU thought it needed more setback for its buildings, they should have thought of that when they built them in the first place. Decatur Street preceded GSU by nearly a century, and should be allowed to serve the role it was intended to have when it was one of only seven streets in Marthasville–the main thoroughfare between town and city.

By: Nelliebelle1197

Nelliebelle1197 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:26:35 +0000

That’s hilarious.

By: Alex Bauman

Alex Bauman — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:59:38 +0000

Wendell Cox once said in a NY Times piece that Times Square didn’t have enough foot traffic to support businesses. Times Square!

He is an industry shill but is a very useful way to tell which journalists are too lazy to look into their sources’ backgrounds.

By: Paul Supawanich

Paul Supawanich — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:51:48 +0000

even better if the link was attached!

http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/posts/learning-from-new-york