Atlanta's Downtown Connector expressway splits the city and divides residential neighborhoods. Now the city is looking at ways to stitch the city back together.
"Atlanta was cut in half when a six-lanelimited-access expressway split the west sidefrom the east side between 1947 and 1951. That was when the first leg of the DowntownConnector was built... It divided residentialneighborhoods...Many of the city's numberedstreets ended in a dead end on both sides of thehighway. Fifty years later, the expressway has multiplied inlanes, widening the distance between what usedto be a seamless Atlanta. But now Atlanta has an opportunity to try torestitch the tear that tore the city apart..."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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