Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Atlanta

Atlanta’s Bad Traffic Situation Is About to Get Worse

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 1, 2012 | No Comments

Well, the Atlanta region has spoken. The proposed one-cent sales tax hike to support $7.15 billion in spending on transit and roads was roundly defeated Tuesday, with 62 percent opposing. Though approved by Atlanta city voters, none of the 10 counties considering the measure gave it the thumbs up, according to unofficial results. The defeat […]

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Atlanta’s Big Moment

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 16, 2012 | No Comments

There’s a lot at stake for metro Atlanta on July 31. That day, voters will go to the polls to decide the fate of a proposed one percent sales tax that promises some $8 billion in transportation funding, to be split relatively evenly between transit and road projects over 10 counties. If it fails, experts […]

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Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 3: Joe Calabrese and Ryan Gravel

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 18, 2012 | No Comments

This is the third part in Streetsblog’s series profiling 11 officials who are bringing American cities and towns into the 21st century when it comes to transportation and planning policy. Read the earlier profiles in part one and part two. Joe Calabrese General Manager, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority In 2007, Greater Cleveland’s Regional Transit Authority (RTA) […]

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The Streets and the Courts Failed Raquel Nelson. Can Advocacy Save Her?

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 22, 2011 | No Comments

Last week, we reported on the horrific story of Raquel Nelson, whose four-year-old son was killed as she attempted to cross the street with him to reach their home. Nelson was convicted of reckless conduct, improperly crossing a roadway and second-degree homicide by vehicle, all for the crime of being a pedestrian in the car-centric […]

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Georgia Mom Convicted of Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street With Kids

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 14, 2011 | No Comments

A Google Street View image of the intersection where Raquel Nelson’s four-year-old son was killed. There are no crosswalks in sight. We don’t normally report on vehicle crashes on the Capitol Hill blog, but this was so outrageous we couldn’t help ourselves. A 30-year-old woman in Marietta, Georgia was convicted of vehicular homicide this week […]

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Will Georgia’s Next Governor ‘Unclog Atlanta’?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 2, 2010 | No Comments

This is the final installment of our series on high-stakes governor’s races. We hope you’ll be watching along with us tonight as the results come in for the races we’ve followed in Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, and Tennessee. Now, we turn to Georgia. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Georgians two weeks ago, […]

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