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Again: the same team that brought you basic repaving projects lasting years and years and years will be responsible for upkeeping the Stitch.

Today’s megaprojects are tomorrow’s nightmare infrastructure repair projects.

It took $21M and 7 years to replace this bridge that is maybe a half acre max, which begs the question what the f#ck is going to happen when the Stitch - which is 28x larger than- needs to undergo capital repairs?

My face when I see a Waymo

stop fucking writing "plunge" or "skyrocket" about two years of homicide data counts

use a statistics word like "it was 10 last year and eight the year before"

One of my friends just bought a house in suburban Denmark, and holy cow the community amenities section of the lists proximity by METERS.

If candidates for local office are not demanding, like Kelsea, that trophy commercial properties be appraised at market and pay their fair share of taxes - why not? It's a scandal.
And a $500M / yr revenue opportunity for APS, City & County.
The only way out of the financial jam Atlanta is in.

Goes without saying that Union-Pacific’s acquisition of Norfolk Southern is really bad news for Atlanta, but it’s also a black mark on Brian Kemp’s and Keisha Lance Bottoms’ economic records…given how much we gave up to build them a fancy new campus in Midtown.

Atlanta- we’re not going to miss underused vehicular lanes. We will miss people whose lives are altered due to unsafe infrastructure.

Here’s a few sample locations to change:

Convert 1/2 of RDA to a linear park:

@jasondozier.bsky.social @westmorelandatl.bsky.social @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social

I personally think the project is just the crown jewel of the Central Atlanta business district celebrating the eviction of Peachtree-Pine Shelter.

“Arguably more so than the Stitch” that’s a low standard considering the Stitch is a scam megaproject that won’t transform a damn thing.

Fair. Numbers matter, and I’ve never landlorded. Regardless of the final number, it’s a tax that renters have to pay but owner-occupants don’t simply because they pay rent to themselves.

I think a lot of these Gen X “shame the landlord” warriors also don’t understand how incredibly high taxes are on renters. This home pays $550/mo in property taxes plus another $450ish on income tax from the rental transaction. People who bought homes in the 90’s basically don’t pay either.

East Atlanta Facebook having another completely normal discussion about market rent and landlords. My fav is when a lady “does the math” to prove it is too expensive, but the math is that two roommates each earning $42k/year could easily afford the 3x rent-to-gross income rule of thumb.

“Commodifying the city’s civil right legacy” is an incredible line.

One of my favorite ways to deal with facebook NIMBYs is to aggressively agree with them - but pretend they are making the true good faith version of their obviously bad faith argument.

“Oh, you claim you want to preserve trees? Here’s 5 ways dense apartments and no parking accomplishes that goal.”

"bike crash"

Car driver looking right at the bike makes a mid block u-turn straight into them.

Journalists stop reversing causality when drivers crash into bikes: challenge level impossible.

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Just got my first “sorry, I let AI invite people to this meeting, but you don’t need to be at this one.”

Congrats Project Mgmt, you are now getting a phone call from me for every meeting asking if I was supposed to be invited.

When is the part where AI saves us time and makes work more efficient?

Does anyone else think the Atlanta Urban Development Corporation’s new Midtown Fire Station is adding an insane amount of new parking spaces 500 yards from a MARTA station?!

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“Repopulating Mars”
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“RE-populating Mars”
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“Re”

A young coworker recently moved from rural Mississippi told me he’s excited living walking distance to restaurants and stores. I asked if he stayed in Midtown, BeltLine, Decatur, etc.

Nope, he lives in one of those desolate suburban stroads in FAIRBURN!

Oh, MS. Never stop making GA look kinda OK.

Guide for being an unhinged private neighborhood facebook nimby:
1) post a baseless accusation that someone building new homes illegally cut trees
2) add truly weird comments that cast the home builder as a, uh, godless assassin of the future?!?!
3) whoops turns out everything is properly permitted

Brought to you by *** checks notes *** Georgia Power?!

I once again call upon the State of Georgia to designate I-16 the William Tecumseh Sherman Memorial Highway.

Happy Battle of Atlanta date to all who celebrate especially @anthonymkreis.bsky.social

Happy Battle of Atlanta Day to all who celebrate!

That $13 million number is six times the annual contract between the City of Atlanta and Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative, which Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens almost successfully extralegally vetoed to exact political retribution to PAD, over their opposition to the $110 million "Cop City"

Why is ATLUTD goalkeeper dressed like the Hamburgler?