Many blame an inefficient transit system for Atlanta traffic. But as World Cup visitors learned, MARTA handled 4.7 million rail trips with no major incidents over 35 days – even with Five Points Station half closed! Some have posited that…
Can you believe that it hasn’t even been 10 years since Atlanta United’s first match? Soccer has become an integral part of our city’s sports identity right alongside the Braves, the Falcons and the Hawks. Tens of thousands of people…
For decades, South Metro Atlanta has been defined by proximity – close to the world’s busiest airport, threaded by major interstates and anchored by logistics and distribution. Today, that geography still matters, but it no longer tells the whole story.…
For public transit planners tasked with keeping Georgia moving, complex challenges have piled up, as it were, like the…
Atlanta is getting worldwide recognition, the likes of which the city hasn’t…
It’s hard to imagine a more powerful affordable housing effort than Atlanta’s Westside Future Fund. With over $100 million in philanthropic investment and impact funds to date, it could provide a model for similar initiatives, but it’s also difficult to…
It was nearly a decade in the making, but the massive reconfiguration of the interchange at Interstate 285 and…
Downtown Atlanta is going through a bit of a metamorphosis, with the transformation of the 2 Peachtree Street office building, a massive renovation of Georgia State…
It was the job he always wanted – but first there was a hurdle to get over. No problem for the Georgia Tech grad who approaches every challenge with an engineer’s mindset. Still, when Andre Dickens won the runoff for…
The U.S. Interstate Highway System is partly funded by the federal government but owned and maintained by individual state governments. We like to think of ourselves as a nation of big ideas – a nation of innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders…
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