Updated Stadium Transportation Plan for Cobb County (Atlanta, Clayton: how much, property taxes)

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by spotch

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This is hilarious!
I especially like the 2104 long range plan. LOL

[JPD]

This thing is never going to happen.

[cqholt]

Seriously, the 2040 plan to be completed by "Fall 2104" seems rather specific. Surely we won't have to drive cars on such a mass scale 100 yrs from now-- shouldn't we have flying cars, self-propelled commuter cars, and virtual reality offices by then?

Everyone will get around on hoverboards.

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Everyone will get around on hoverboards.

That may actually be a realistic date instead of a typo. The pace at which transportation projects get done in this state would make that date sound pretty accurate.

[BeyondInfinity]

I swear Cobb leaders are the dumbest bunch in metro Atlanta. I always thought Clayton County leaders were incompetent but Cobb leaders have officially out done them.

I always said that Cobb County was backwards and this just proves my point!

1. Dumb (Braves plan to leave the city of Atlanta for Cobb County)
2. Dumber (Cobb County leaders agree to pay $300+ million for the Braves to relocate to their county)
3. Dumbest (Cobb leaders reject rail into their area)

[jeoff]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Summerhill isn't ghetto, it just seemed that way because land owners found it easier to burn/tear down the structure and sell parking spots on the lot for $20/car.

Much of what got torn down was because the owners had little choice (and this was prior to the Braves moving to Atlanta). My father owned a business and several apartments down Capitol Avenue prior to the Braves coming to town. While I am not 100% sure about his interpretation of things, there was definitely a lot of crookedness going on. The City cracked down on enforcement to such an extent that running private low-income housing in the area became impossible. This was at the time that the government decided it could do low income housing better than anyone else, so that may have been part of it, or maybe someone just wanted the land, or wanted the residents to leave. Someone said that he could get him serious money for the land if he put someone else's name on the deal--he refused--seemed crooked to him.

[Jimmeh]

If it doesn't happen. No one will be butt hurt. If it does a lot of you naysayers are going to look like idiots.

[JoeP]

"transit?" This isn't transit. There is no transit. What this is, is hell forced on Smyrna residents.
What b u l l s h i t.

[therealpattman]

I have concluded that the new stadium can actually survive if the county and state can build underground tunnels to connect the new stadium directly to both interstates 75 and 285.

[SAAN]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Summerhill isn't ghetto, it just seemed that way because land owners found it easier to burn/tear down the structure and sell parking spots on the lot for $20/car.

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I know it isnt ghetto, but with the comments you are seeing on the neighborhood, they act like it is the same Summerhill before the Olympics. Yeah the neighborhood is a bit skechty south of the Stadium and West of it, but I didnt really see it as dangerous on game days with all the people around.