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"Straight roads" are simple to build if your terrain is overall FLAT! LOL,
Exactly. Building straight roads in Atlanta is unrealistic. It's Piedmont territory with streams and hills, plus many areas have an ordinance to keep it green. Dallas is the prairies.
Seattle and San Francisco are hillier yet have many straight roads. Atlanta simply doesn't have enough roads, but you will notice this is not the case at the very core of the city.
As it grew, Dallas simply suburbanized the classic street grid, but they've never been scared to build roads. Atlanta on the other hand is the king of superblocks.
So it has little to do with terrain. Houston is even flatter but has less of a straight edge grid than Dallas.
Yep, gotta give Dallas that. For a metro area that large, the traffic is ok.
Yeah and despite having 1.5 ish million more people and faster growth Dallas has way better traffic than Atlanta which is probably has the worst designed road system for a large city in the country.
A feature of Dallas is also having a better airport and being centrally located. Atlanta to the Rockies or West Coast is more of a pain. Dallas isn't so far even from the North East to make it an unreasonable long weekend in lets say, Boston.
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A feature of Dallas is also having a better airport and being centrally located. Atlanta to the Rockies or West Coast is more of a pain. Dallas isn't so far even from the North East to make it an unreasonable long weekend in lets say, Boston.
It's also great being centrally located, most of the country is within a 3 hour flight, Seattle being the exception about about 4 hours.
Most of the west is an additional hour to hour and a half from Atlanta. Seattle is an over 5 hour flight. I would prefer to have a shorter flight to the Western cities than to the East, thats just a personal preference.
DFW offers direct flights to smaller western metros like Boise, Reno, and Spokane. While I'm sure Atlanta offers direct flights to smaller eastern metros out west things are more spread out so these direct flights make a bigger difference.
It's also great being centrally located, most of the country is within a 3 hour flight, Seattle being the exception about about 4 hours.
Most of the west is an additional hour to hour and a half from Atlanta. Seattle is an over 5 hour flight. I would prefer to have a shorter flight to the Western cities than to the East, thats just a personal preference.
DFW offers direct flights to smaller western metros like Boise, Reno, and Spokane. While I'm sure Atlanta offers direct flights to smaller eastern metros out west things are more spread out so these direct flights make a bigger difference.
Stating that you prefer DFW due to geography is one thing, but that doesn't make it better than ATL.
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