Study: Toll Road Won't Help

24 January 2003 - 12:00pm

Atlanta's proposed 59-mile toll road would do more to harm the region's quality of life than to improve it.

"A two-year study of Atlanta's northern suburbs by the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority says the proposed 59-mile Northern Arc toll road would do less to relieve traffic congestion, promote good air quality and save time and money for commuters than other options... But even that won't be enough. Better roads and more trains and buses alone will not ease traffic congestion, the research says, unless they are linked with changes in local land use requirements."

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 24, 2003
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