Carl Dagher on City of Atlanta Roads
Carl Dagher
City of Atlanta Roads
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Yeah, Luca, this is something I've I've noticed.
- 0:03 I mean, in my time living here.
- 0:05 Uh the roads are horrible.
- 0:08 Um I think traffic patterns are very inefficient.
- 0:12 Um there's a lot of work to be done to improve I mean Atlanta's known for having the worst traffic and the worst roads in the country.
- 0:18 So I I think it's been a issue for too long for there to not be significant change.
- 0:24 Um I actually did a project on this topic um la this summer.
- 0:28 Um I I did some crash investigation and traffic investigation in the city of Atlanta for a computer science course.
- 0:35 Um and in my research I I discovered that in I think August of 2024, August 2024, um there is a moving Atlanta Forward initiative that was passed and essentially there's six hundred sixty million dollars pledged to the city of Atlanta and only I think about seven percent of that was pledged to improving traffic um issues in roads in Atlanta.
- 0:58 And you know, for a city that's known for having such bad traffic, I think financially we should invest a little bit more in improving it.
- 1:11 And from what I've seen on on local election news for Atlanta, um most politicians don't necessarily run on improving road infrastructure or traffic issues in Atlanta.
- 1:24 It's more crime, which of course crime is is the high priority in this city, but I think improving roads should be up there.
- 1:33 I mean i i the roads are the heart of the city and and you know for a city that's expanding this this fast uh we we need more effective traffic control in roads.
- 1:44 So yeah, I think Atlanta should focus its resources on fixing the roads, but we'll we'll see if that ever happens.
- 1:52 I mean it doesn't seem like anything will be happening anytime soon.