Brookhaven ranks as Georgia’s ‘most exciting’ place (Atlanta: apartment, homes)

[whodean]

Might want to check out Dresden

[10 feet tall]

Brookhaven pretty much has the worst traffic in Atlanta. Have you ever tried to drive along Old Johnson Ferry to West Nancy Creek to Harts Mill to Chamblee Dunwoody in the evening. Not only is there traffic, but it doesn't move at all. You can spend an hour sitting in front of someone's driveway waiting to move. Hope they don't have to get out of their house and go anywhere, because they aren't going anywhere soon either. Just terrible.

And what about Brookhaven is even remotely walkable? Nothing, that's what.

Honestly I just don't see the fascination. Same housing stock as Dunwoody with worse traffic and it looks more run down. And it's even less walkable, if you can even imagine that. No thanks, Brookhaven.

[Pemgin]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Believe it or not, she steered her bike over to avoid a pedestrian who had stepped off the sidewalk. Hit by a pickup truck. Broke her pelvis, both legs, cracked ribs and internal damage and a severe concussion. And the crazy woman is back to riding her bike again!

Good for her. We need more people on bikes and fewer in cars.

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by Pemgin

Good for her. We need more people on bikes and fewer in cars.

Friend, bikes don't work for the most part in this city.

[ElleKaye]

I don't find the traffic that bad. There is not a Starbuck's to be found, and I'm fored to use the Dunkin on Dresdent near my Chiropractor. That also makes mention the fact that my chiropractor makes you ring the bell to get in like it''s a high crime area.

[ATL Golfer]

Originally Posted by ElleKaye

I don't find the traffic that bad. There is not a Starbuck's to be found, and I'm fored to use the Dunkin on Dresdent near my Chiropractor. That also makes mention the fact that my chiropractor makes you ring the bell to get in like it''s a high crime area.

There are two Starbucks that I can think of. One at Kroger on Peachtree. Another at Cambridge shopping center where Ashford Dunwoody and Old Johnson's Ferry meet.


Traffic is bad in spots, but that is for the people driving through. Locals can navigate around. May Have to take a little longer route but manageable.

As for things walkable. Plenty of shops and restaurants are walkable from residential along Dresden, Ashford Dunwoody etc.

[netdragon]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Friend, bikes don't work for the most part in this city.

I'm a bicycle advocate and that's a problem Atlanta needs to solve. It shouldn't be something bicyclists should have to confront. Atlanta should learn from Smyrna. Heck, even Marietta, Town Center area and Cherokee county are building bicycle paths now.

Beyond just building more paths, Atlanta needs to become more aggressive at handing out tickets to drivers who are aggressive near bicyclists. To be even-handed, they should also ticket bicyclists who break the rules (aside from riding on sidewalks when it's not endangering anyone). However, bicyclists tend to educate each other and it's usually drivers who are the problem.

[netdragon]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Brookhaven has a ton of dining options these days.

zzzzzzzzzzz. That makes it different how?

[whodean]

It's no Smyrna ;-)

[10 feet tall]

Originally Posted by whodean

It's no Smyrna ;-)

I have to admit I don't get where the Smyrna love comes from either. It isn't a bad place to live by any means but it is hardly what it's made out to be around here. I mean they have, what, one outdoor mall-like place with a restaurant all the sudden it is a walkable new urbanism utopia.