Alright, I'll tentatively support the Northern Arc.

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Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Someone is resurrecting the Northern Arc???

Not in this political climate and not if Georgia Republicans want to keep control of state government.

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Originally Posted by theway2004

I do not like the idea of the Northern Arc, even with them now resurrecting it again, however, to see them being proactive in planning the road way BEFORE expansion is a welcome idea. Any place I have ever lived they build the roadways first to be ahead of the growth and it doesn't lead to traffic nightmare, here in Atlanta they growth happens and then they try to keep up with it afterwards, and that is why we have the mess we do. Then people complain about the traffic yet don't want the roads built, but the traffic and the growth are already there, at least we can be thankful that we have growth when many places are dying. I say we keep ahead of the game, that way it allows them to control the growth areas, instead of letting the development happen and then they are left with the task of trying to route new roads to accomdate it later. If they expanded and improved the existing Highway 20, which already has a huge space available on either side, with very little need to move houses or businesses along the route, and improve the flow for the traffic already using it and create a better flow as well as improve the roads from areas taht already connect to it, they already have half the problem solved as if by just improving on what is already there.

In Houston when promoting their rail vote, one of their slogans was, "What if we didn't build it and they came anyways?"

That is what happened in the North metro area here.