Atlanta Road Engineering Mistakes (Some Can't Be Fixed!)

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Atlanta's traffic feels worse than a city of its size should. Let's look at the bigger picture why, from missing freeways to the unique way Georgia builds its suburbs. Is there an easy way to fix it? Can it be fixed at all? Buy me tacos 😀🌮► https://patreon.com/roadguyrob Ask a road question ► https://patreon.com/roadguyrob ----------------------------------- Background research: ----------------------------------- American Transportation Research Institute, 2023. "Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks" https://truckingresearch.org/2023/02/top-100-truck-bottlenecks-2023/ Georgia Dept. of Transportation, Maps. https://www.dot.ga.gov/GDOT/Pages/Maps.aspx Bertaud, Alain, 2007. "Density in Atlanta: Implications for Traffic and Transit" https://www.academia.edu/67450504/Density_in_Atlanta_Implications_for_Traffic_and_Transit Seong, Jeong C., 2025. "Beond the Road: A Regional Perspective on Traffic Congestion in Metro Atlanta" https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/2/61 Kolomatsky, M., The New York Times, 2022. "Which States Offer the Largest Lot Sizes for Home Buyers?" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/realestate/lot-size-states-metros.html Georgia Dept. of Transportation, 2018. "Towing & Recovery Incentive Program (TRIP)" https://timetaskforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TRIP_May_2018.pdf Federal Highway Administration. "Part V - Interstate Withdrawal-Substitution Program" https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/interstate-system/dwight-d-eisenhower-system-interstate-and-defense-highways/part-v Pacheco, K., Angi.com, 2022. "The 2022 U.S. Lot Size Index" https://www.angi.com/articles/lot-size-index.htm Georgia State University Library, Digital Collections. "Plan and Program of Rapid Transit for the Atlanta Metropolitan Region, 1962" https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/marta/id/3886 Various periodicals cited on screen ------------------------- Time sections: ------------------------- Eight Miles to Next Door (0:00) Single Point of Failure (1:17) Not a "Perimeter" (3:54) Deliberately Disconnected (5:01) Not a Sponsorship (7:07) Luxuriously Large Lots (7:31) TollerCoaster (9:57) Optimizing Roads (11:43) No A.I., Except Upscaling (13:08) Football Train (13:18) Baseball Car (13:49) The Railroad Problem (15:49) Livable Cities (16:46) Buckhead (17:42) End (18:31)