Mobility 2030: Breaking Atlanta's Gridlock

9 June 2003 - 6:00am

Commuters get to voice their opinions about Atlanta Regional Commission's unprecedented transportation plan aimed at easing traffic congestion in metro Atlanta.

"The Atlanta Regional Commission will hold public meetings on its plan to create an interlocking grid of road and mass transit improvements to reduce congestion in the 13-county area between now and 2030...faced with pressure from federal regulators to clean up Atlanta's air, the commission is trying to overcome historic hostilities, financial constraints and bureaucratic restrictions to ease gridlock in the face of projections about explosive population growth."

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 9, 2003
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