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Georgia Removes Tolls, Invites 11,000 More Drivers to Clog GA 400 Each Day
Why raise desperately needed transportation funds for a broke region when you could let people drive for free? In Georgia, the state has made up its mind: The DOT will pay $4.5 million to tear down tolls on GA 400 -- and forfeit the $21 million a year the tolls brought in.
October 29, 2013
Atlanta Beltline, Still in Its Infancy, Already Boosting Business
It's working. The Atlanta Beltline, still in its most formative stages, is already boosting business and promoting development, according to this report from a local news station.
July 17, 2013
Greater Atlanta Continues to Treat Walking Like a Crime
Despite the national outrage over the Raquel Nelson case, officials in metro Atlanta continue to treat pedestrians like criminals.
October 2, 2012
Georgia Prosecutor Continues Case Against Raquel Nelson
The impaired hit-and-run driver who struck and killed her son on a metro Atlanta road in 2010 has been released from prison by now, but Raquel Nelson is still being prosecuted for her purported role in the tragedy.
September 11, 2012
Atlanta Beltline Staff: “We Still Have a Project to Build”
The Atlanta Beltline project isn't going away. Project staff want to make that clear. Sure, last week, Atlanta turned down -- by a wide margin -- a major transportation spending package that would have awarded $600 million to the Beltline project. But this project -- an innovative transit and trails corridor that will circle Atlanta's central city -- has seen big setbacks before, says Ethan Davidson, the Beltline's spokesman.
August 6, 2012
Atlanta’s Bad Traffic Situation Is About to Get Worse
Well, the Atlanta region has spoken.
August 1, 2012
Atlanta’s Big Moment
There's a lot at stake for metro Atlanta on July 31. That day, voters will go to the polls to decide the fate of a proposed one percent sales tax that promises some $8 billion in transportation funding, to be split relatively evenly between transit and road projects over 10 counties. If it fails, experts warn, the only fundable transportation project going forward could be toll roads.
July 16, 2012
Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 3: Joe Calabrese and Ryan Gravel
This is the third part in Streetsblog’s series profiling 11 officials who are bringing American cities and towns into the 21st century when it comes to transportation and planning policy. Read the earlier profiles in part one and part two.
April 18, 2012
The Streets and the Courts Failed Raquel Nelson. Can Advocacy Save Her?
Last week, we reported on the horrific story of Raquel Nelson, whose four-year-old son was killed as she attempted to cross the street with him to reach their home. Nelson was convicted of reckless conduct, improperly crossing a roadway and second-degree homicide by vehicle, all for the crime of being a pedestrian in the car-centric Atlanta suburbs. The conviction carried a sentence of up to 36 months, while the driver who killed Nelson's son -- who'd been drinking and using painkillers before getting behind the wheel -- got off with six months on a hit-and-run charge.
July 22, 2011
Georgia Mom Convicted of Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street With Kids
We don’t normally report on vehicle crashes on the Capitol Hill blog, but this was so outrageous we couldn’t help ourselves.
July 14, 2011