Before spending billions of dollars for trains, buses and new roads to improve transportation in metro Atlanta, how about making a simple, cheap and effective change that would reduce commuter time and gas consumption? How about doing what Gov. Sonny Perdue and so many commissioners and mayors have promised to do for so many years? How about synchronizing all traffic lights? I recently spent nearly an hour traveling a few miles on Fulton Industrial Boulevard in a logjam of angry drivers. The same commute usually takes about 10 minutes when the lights are working properly.
Please spend a small amount of money changing the timing of the traffic lights and save all of us a lot of money and grief. We don’t need TIA; we need a common sense approach for traffic solutions.
Tony Cain
Austell
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Too much good sense!!!
Maybe some of you folks might consider running for office. We need oridinary people in govt. The huge change would be for the better.
Thanks, folks.
They might actually work.
They certainly couldn't hurt.
But NO, those are simply not high profile and "visionary" enough for the oversized egos of the powers that be.
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They don't promote the transit agenda of Tim Lee, the Cumberland CID, MARTA and the CITY of Atlanta.
In their convoluted logic, the more traffic congestion the better chance that Cobb voters will vote for the TIA.
The ultimate goal is to build a very expensive legacy (light rail) with Cobb County tax dollars and they will stop at nothing to try to accomplish that.
Corruption is tied to all the SPLAOST's The TIA,.. the roads, DOT,..follow the money!!
Corruption- high!
Quality of life- low!!
Cobb Parkway is proof positive, the level of INCOMPETENCE!! You got a major corridor running straight up through your county, from the ONLY high dollor professional business area in Cobb,.. and here in 2012, it looks like a SLUM!
Be ashamed, Cobb ,..then get ANGRY!!
Timmy Lee is coming to Smyrna to beg the blind to vote for MORE WASTE!!
Do NOT be fooled, old folks!
Just look around!
Windy Hill- horrendous!
South Cobb- should be highway into the city!!
The exit ramp from 285 dead ends right into Cobb Parkway &at Spring Road. Built like that 30 years ago,.. then just left!
(and NOWHERE are any of these lights in synch or on censors!!
You tell me where is the competency!!
and forget about making a left turn on your own any more.
CDOT isn't doing their job.
Doing something as simple and as relatively inexpensive as synchronizing the traffic lights would be a great start to dealing with the region's numerous traffic problems.
Mr. Cain is also very much correct in his assessment that we do NOT need a TIA, but that we need a common sense approach for traffic solutions, a common sense approach which includes NO NEW TAXES to fix our transportation issues.