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<blockquote data-quote="EE95_curse EMAG!" data-source="post: 921860" data-attributes="member: 4295"><p>Starting this as on the Football - Key's Staff thread, tomknight suggested my reasons for the small lot sizes, overbuilding of subdivisions and apartment complexes that have caused massive traffic issues are not sound. I want to hear his take. </p><p></p><p>Original post:</p><p></p><p></p><p>My EE95_curse EMAG! reply:</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I am way up north (still metro Atlanta), maybe 35 miles as crow flies to GT, and traffic is a nightmare all day long, NOT just morning and evening rush hour. Every time I go out I see a new housing developement or townhome or worse, huge apartment complex and never are the roads being widened or are new roads being built. The east-west state highways are now too congested. I guess its the new norm with over-population. To think some businessmen/celebrities think we're in danger of under-population in the next 20 years. I sure don't see it. I feel bad for those that moved out to the sticks 15 years ago to get away from the noise/pollution/traffic only to see dozens of new housing projects all around them and now noise/traffic/pollution. At this point, I think I'd have to go out to Ellijay or Dahlonega to get far enough north to avoid the sprawl for the next 10 years. In 20 years, they'll be just like Marietta/Roswell is now...a mess. Maybe I need to go to Alaska and hope the cold keeps the hoards away?</p><p></p><p>They should have kept a minimum lot size for homes and maximum unit size for apartments in place in some of these cities/counties. My subdivision is so tiny that cars are parked all along the narrow roads, so you have to swerve in and out. I blame greedy developers and on-the-take council members. Such a shame they can squeeze in homes on top of each other AND have such small lots/driveways that you have to park on a narrow two-way road. Should be criminal. THIS is the cause of traffic issues, too much growth in too dense of an area. CORRUPTION has never been worse than today.</p><p></p><p></p><p>tomknight replied:</p><p>[USER=4295]@EE95_curse EMAG![/USER] - there is slmostnothing factualin ypur post, but this isn't the thread for it.</p><p></p><p>Create a different thread and I'll engage. Same thing for why MARTA doesn't go the burbs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EE95_curse EMAG!, post: 921860, member: 4295"] Starting this as on the Football - Key's Staff thread, tomknight suggested my reasons for the small lot sizes, overbuilding of subdivisions and apartment complexes that have caused massive traffic issues are not sound. I want to hear his take. Original post: My EE95_curse EMAG! reply: Yeah, I am way up north (still metro Atlanta), maybe 35 miles as crow flies to GT, and traffic is a nightmare all day long, NOT just morning and evening rush hour. Every time I go out I see a new housing developement or townhome or worse, huge apartment complex and never are the roads being widened or are new roads being built. The east-west state highways are now too congested. I guess its the new norm with over-population. To think some businessmen/celebrities think we're in danger of under-population in the next 20 years. I sure don't see it. I feel bad for those that moved out to the sticks 15 years ago to get away from the noise/pollution/traffic only to see dozens of new housing projects all around them and now noise/traffic/pollution. At this point, I think I'd have to go out to Ellijay or Dahlonega to get far enough north to avoid the sprawl for the next 10 years. In 20 years, they'll be just like Marietta/Roswell is now...a mess. Maybe I need to go to Alaska and hope the cold keeps the hoards away? They should have kept a minimum lot size for homes and maximum unit size for apartments in place in some of these cities/counties. My subdivision is so tiny that cars are parked all along the narrow roads, so you have to swerve in and out. I blame greedy developers and on-the-take council members. Such a shame they can squeeze in homes on top of each other AND have such small lots/driveways that you have to park on a narrow two-way road. Should be criminal. THIS is the cause of traffic issues, too much growth in too dense of an area. CORRUPTION has never been worse than today. tomknight replied: [USER=4295]@EE95_curse EMAG![/USER] - there is slmostnothing factualin ypur post, but this isn't the thread for it. Create a different thread and I'll engage. Same thing for why MARTA doesn't go the burbs. [/QUOTE]
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