Once upon a time here in Georgia, when congestion on I-285, the bypass circling Atlanta got bad, there were plans for a new bypass about 20 miles further out. The liberals in Georgia put a stop to that because it would cause sprawl.
See when I-285 was first constructed a lot of the area around it was country. But, eventually businesses sprouted up along its path along with housing. The metro area expanded out and past I-285. This was sprawl.
The liberals said the same thing would happen if a new bypass was constructed. They even put the kibosh on an abbreviated version, the Northern Arc, which would only connect I-75 to I-85, and would take a shitload of trucks off I-285.
To liberals sprawl is bad. Everyone needs to live in the heart of big cities in little overpriced apartments and take mass transit. Cars are evil. No one should live in the suburbs.
The model for this is New York City.
So how’s that working out with the Kung Flu? New York City has been hit harder than anywhere else in the country. Of course they’re also blessed with a booger eatin’ moh-ron for a mayor, but it was the booger eatin’ moh-rons in New York who elected and then reelected him so they deserve what they are getting good and hard.
Meanwhile, places that have sprawl, where people live in big houses in nice suburbs are doing far better. They can work from home without being cooped up in a high rise with a bunch of other people and riding a subway that is an incubator of disease. Cars are looking better and better. Too bad there is no place to park in these crowded congested cities.
I’m lucky that I got to work in the sprawl around I-285 and live in the suburbs. The traffic sucked but the parking was free. In the 35 years I’ve lived here I’ve hardly ever been in downtown Atlanta. As for wanting to live in the city itself, no way. If I didn’t want to live close to a major hospital, I would be out in the country like many of my former coworkers at IBM.
Crowded cities suck! Plus they’re run by Dimocrats.
Sprawl is good!
Denny, please send to my e-mail how I can send things only to you for your acceptance or rejection before posting, since this is your site.
Herb – gocinatlanta@bellsouth.net
I’m with you, I’m just in the sprawl around Athens. Far enough away to enjoy shooting off my back porch, but 20 minutes from 40 Watt.
I’ll take urban sprawl – and the minor inconveniences that go with it – over ultra-congested big city life any time. Where I live in the burbs, I can do just about anything I need to do in a 20 minute or less drive. Works for me.
Hospitals are the reason we live downtown Chicago. Northwestern Memorial is 4 blocks away, U of Chicago, and Rush are close by…all nationally ranked hospitals. 30 restaurants with two blocks of our building plus Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Jewel Foods, and Walgreens all withing 1-2 blocks. We live high enough up to not hear anything below. My car is on the 5th floor of the parking garage. Life is good.
They hate sprawl because it gives a little bit more independence. You can own a car and not rely on mass transit. That gives you mobility in where you work etc. Plus as Denny pointed out mass transit spreads diseases. All of the “hotspots “ for moo goo gai panic have large mass transit systems.
Seems to me that them-there Libs be sufferin’ from lack of brain sprawl. They’ve gotten so closed-minded that it’s impossible for them to expand their mental perspective and re-examine the accepted dogma. Growth is good.
Sprawl to any small town resident is when some arrogant outsider moves in and wants to change us into what he left behind. Sprawl is when you build a house on an otherwise unoccupied road and five years later you’re surrounded by a suburb. But with sprawl comes governmental overreach. Democrats adore it, no matter how loud they may scream about inappropriate land use. (Say, since when has the USDA been good for anything but passing out welfare checks? Or EPA, the farm-killer if ever there was one.)
Sprawl is good. Distance your neighbors. Dems are telling us that.
Mass transit is a crowd in a can.
Which one of you is behind this?
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/wuhan-plague-plaques-found-atlanta-businesses-streets/b9takSWmtKqfqai7wAk8iL/
Here in Chicago, none of the 20’s – 40’s (and a ton of retired persons like us) crowd want to be in the suburbs. Boeing, Amazon, Apple, Motorola, McDonalds, Uber, are all downtown now. Many of that same crowd don’t even own cars, opting for Uber/Lyft/Taxi. If they need a car, they rent for the day or a few hours. Condo and rental buildings that used to be built with approx. 1.1 spaces per residential unit are now being built with .33 spaces per residential unit (and that has happened over as little as a 20 year span). The “next” generations are not using automobiles like we did in the 1950’s and 1960’s and are opting for developments like this where they can live and walk or bike for work or for pleasure. https://chicago.curbed.com/maps/chicago-developments-lincoln-yards-78-one-central
In addition, those families families with 4-5 children.. those 4-5 are 1-2 children and those 1-2 children have almost a negative birth rate. All of this is causing a glut of suburban housing right now and it will get worse as there are less and less buyers for a huge stockpile of available homes in that proverbial “urban sprawl”.
https://heyjackass.com/
Not to worry. Many of those problems are gathering in large groups and will result in self genocide. Those Hey Jackass #’s are located in 4 neighborhoods not touching most of the city.