Both my wife and I graduated GT ChE 35 years ago and really liked living in downtown Atlanta. Not many traffic problems downtown, midtown, out east except Ponce at 5PM. Afterwards PHX, Mountain View, Santa Clara, and a delicious stint in '90s SOMA. Now 25 years in the mountains of AZ, lots of experience with PHX traffic. I just got back from 2 days crisscrossing PHX at 80mph, 9AM-3PM.
I've driven in many US cities, and had to suffer the DC traffic horror show for work trips.
My wife's current company HQ is across the mighty traffic river of the 285 from the Brave's fancy new ballpark.
I used to tag along on the twice yearly trips because in theory, downtown and midtown Atlanta are pretty good looking and have a lot of cool urban things; then there are the Buford HW culinary expeditions.
I stopped because even though I had complete freedom to travel in the middle of the day, using Google Maps for advice, I could not get even a single day when one direction did not fail into stupid dumb no way to route around time destruction gridlock.
I watched the Guadalara MX evening commute for 5 days from something like 25th floor of the hotel, and it made me think. A couple of trips to the 'De Efe' MX and stupidly riding a tourist bus at 5pm (no time to spare!) made me think some more. Yesterday I was looking and thinking about Tempe, and its absolutely magnificent building boom. It's a spectacular transformation, for an American City. La Defense, without decent art. I wouldn't want to spend much time in either... Tempe because of the soon to be 130F summer days. LD, because if you're in Paris, why??.
Both Tempe and Atlanta have built a beautiful urban infrastructure with tall business and residential buildings that are generally structured as 3-7 stories of vehicle storage, possibly underground, and a bunch of greatness stacked above.
Tempe is headed toward the worst commutes south of the border, and Atlanta is already there.
Yeah, I haven't mentioned something here. Deh Efe has it and it doesn't matter. Tempe at least has that freight track it will eventually commandeer. Because of city fragmentation, and some uh residual social issues, Atlanta is a lost cause. The future is very, very stupid.
I'm not a transit expert, but I do love to ride the trains.
I've driven in many US cities, and had to suffer the DC traffic horror show for work trips.
My wife's current company HQ is across the mighty traffic river of the 285 from the Brave's fancy new ballpark.
I used to tag along on the twice yearly trips because in theory, downtown and midtown Atlanta are pretty good looking and have a lot of cool urban things; then there are the Buford HW culinary expeditions.
I stopped because even though I had complete freedom to travel in the middle of the day, using Google Maps for advice, I could not get even a single day when one direction did not fail into stupid dumb no way to route around time destruction gridlock.
I watched the Guadalara MX evening commute for 5 days from something like 25th floor of the hotel, and it made me think. A couple of trips to the 'De Efe' MX and stupidly riding a tourist bus at 5pm (no time to spare!) made me think some more. Yesterday I was looking and thinking about Tempe, and its absolutely magnificent building boom. It's a spectacular transformation, for an American City. La Defense, without decent art. I wouldn't want to spend much time in either... Tempe because of the soon to be 130F summer days. LD, because if you're in Paris, why??.
Both Tempe and Atlanta have built a beautiful urban infrastructure with tall business and residential buildings that are generally structured as 3-7 stories of vehicle storage, possibly underground, and a bunch of greatness stacked above.
Tempe is headed toward the worst commutes south of the border, and Atlanta is already there.
Yeah, I haven't mentioned something here. Deh Efe has it and it doesn't matter. Tempe at least has that freight track it will eventually commandeer. Because of city fragmentation, and some uh residual social issues, Atlanta is a lost cause. The future is very, very stupid.
I'm not a transit expert, but I do love to ride the trains.