Wesley Joyce on City of Atlanta Roads
Wesley Joyce
City of Atlanta Roads
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Yeah, I'm currently sitting in traffic now, and I think y'all both bring up some very valid points.
- 0:05 Um, Carl, I think what you said about a campaign hinging on fixing potholes um probably wouldn't be one of the strongest, you know, when we see some of the more um polarizing ideas like crime and um social injustice taking precedent, especially in a city as diverse as Atlanta.
- 0:23 Um, but it really is horrible out here, and it's amazing to me that the city of Atlanta's fix for a lot of these potholes is just throw a steel plate on top of it and leave it for four years.
- 0:34 Um, you know, like it I've been driving over the same steel plates to cover these potholes um around campus, you know, since I got dropped off at campus, which is just ridiculous.
- 0:46 Um and yeah, nothing about nothing about these roads are smooth.
- 0:51 You know, I've popped numerous tires, and now I'm I've drive a little bit bigger of a truck, you know, so it's kind of hard for me to move around sometimes, but I've popped three tires in this city on temporary fixes or culverts that were busted out of place.
- 1:03 I mean, it's just not good.
- 1:05 Um, and it's a hard thing to come back.
- 1:07 Luca, I know you're talking about driving on ponds and there was so many of them.
- 1:10 Um, but if you shut down ponds, I mean midtown is gonna be a mess.
- 1:15 I mean, midtown would take you three hours to drive across the ponds wasn't functioning, you know.
- 1:20 Um I know they back up these highways and it just causes immense amounts of traffic, and you have to you have to stop traffic to do work.
- 1:28 Um obviously people need to be safe.
- 1:30 And you know, I also wonder you see all these big highway projects, and like I never know exactly what they're doing.
- 1:38 And you know, I'm sure there's some uh there's a really smart guy in a desk somewhere that you know proposed the idea and and let it happen, but um I don't know.
- 1:49 I it doesn't it doesn't make sense to me and it doesn't seem that people are very clear on it.
- 1:54 And Carl, you speaking on only 7% of that budget going to traffic improvement.
- 1:58 I mean, we're mate wasting millions of people's time every single day.
- 2:02 Maybe a couple hundred thousand a day.
- 2:04 But I mean, even the mayor is wasting his time when he goes home in this traffic, so I really don't quite understand that one.
- 2:10 Uh I hope that they can fix it soon, but if we're being honest, uh it's likely not to happen.