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Old 12-15-2012, 02:53 PM
 
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...and how they saved their neighborhood from GA 400 and the Stone Mtn Freeway. I cant even imagine what Atlanta would be like had they not succeeded


Better Know a Neighborhood #3: Inman Park and the road fights on Vimeo
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Old 12-15-2012, 08:39 PM
 
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...and how they saved their neighborhood from GA 400 and the Stone Mtn Freeway. I cant even imagine what Atlanta would be like had they not succeeded
Inman Park could have ended up like Midtown, Grant Park, Peachtree Battle, West End, Lenox, Underwood Hills, West Paces Ferry, East Atlanta and all the other neighborhoods that have had freeways rammed through their heart.

It's not pretty.

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Old 12-16-2012, 06:27 PM
 
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Never really thought about it in those terms, but you are right as well as Auburn Ave from the rest of downtown being another one cut off. I think GA 400 though would have been just horrid in comparison had it been completed
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:21 AM
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If this had happened, Edgewood and Reynoldstown, being somewhat immune to the destruction, probably would have been fully gentrified by now.
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:40 AM
 
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If this had happened, Edgewood and Reynoldstown, being somewhat immune to the destruction, probably would have been fully gentrified by now.
No way, it would have split Reyonldstown in half. No way is a freeway running through a residential area ever good!
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Old 12-17-2012, 08:44 AM
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No way, it would have split Reyonldstown in half. No way is a freeway running through a residential area ever good!
I didn't know a freeway was suppsoed to run through Reynoldstown. Do you have a map of the proposed routes?

Nevermind, here's a crude one:



Everyone know how Inman Park stoped the freeway, but there is very little attention paid to the N/S highway that would have been equally destructive.

Regardless, my original point stands. The neighborhoods that weren't split by the freeway would be the hot neighborhoods today if these freeways had been built. Edgewood might have become what Candler Park is today.

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Old 12-17-2012, 09:08 AM
 
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The south leg of 485 was to run through the now Freedom Park and cut south through Reyonldstown.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...61728,0.111494
The reason the Inman Park-Reyonldstown South Bus Bay is a couple blocks west of the station is because it was to be served by a bus-only off ramp from I-485 that was never built.
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The neighborhoods that weren't split by the freeway would be the hot neighborhoods today if these freeways had been built. Edgewood might have become what Candler Park is today
Again, there is no the freeway would have encouraged gentrification in Edgewood. Candler Park is nowhere near a freeway, but its a lot farther along than Edgewood and it is because of ts north of the old color-line, DeKalb Ave, and its zoned for the best cluster in APS.
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Old 12-17-2012, 09:36 AM
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Again, there is no the freeway would have encouraged gentrification in Edgewood. Candler Park is nowhere near a freeway, but its a lot farther along than Edgewood and it is because of ts north of the old color-line, DeKalb Ave, and its zoned for the best cluster in APS.
Uh, look at your own map. You're ignoring the fact that Candler Park would have been split by the freeway. In fact, it would have run directly over Mary Lin School. So much for best cluster. Given a choice, people prefer not to live next to freeways, and that fact probably (remember, I used the word "probably" above) would have made Edgewood more attractive for urban pioneering and gentrification than it has turned out to be (until very recently).
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Old 12-17-2012, 11:18 AM
 
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Uh, look at your own map. You're ignoring the fact that Candler Park would have been split by the freeway. In fact, it would have run directly over Mary Lin School. So much for best cluster. Given a choice, people prefer not to live next to freeways, and that fact probably (remember, I used the word "probably" above) would have made Edgewood more attractive for urban pioneering and gentrification than it has turned out to be (until very recently).
So the logic is that some of the nicest areas in the city would have been destroyed by the freeways, thus making other areas less sh*tty because the nice areas wouldn't be there so there would be other nice areas? Seems impeccable...
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Old 12-17-2012, 11:30 AM
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So the logic is that some of the nicest areas in the city would have been destroyed by the freeways, thus making other areas less sh*tty because the nice areas wouldn't be there so there would be other nice areas? Seems impeccable...

So what you're saying is that the people displaced by the highways would just disappear, rather than looking for other intown places to live?

That doesn't make any sense.
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