Quote Originally Posted by 4twentE
^^ I have driven in LA rush hour. It's got nothing on Atlanta traffic. LA has twice the people of ATL, but it's a much much larger city. ATL has developed in a sprawling manner. It gets built out, not up. There's only about a half a million people living in metro ATL, out of the 5 million who work there. It really creates massive traffic problems when 4.5 million people (OK we'll say 3 million working people) try to all get to and from work at the same time. In most major cities (NYC, Chicago, LA) the population majority lives within the city, whereas most Atlantans live in the suburbs, miles from work. And Atlanta has some of the worst city planning ever, which brings me to my next point...

^ Most major cities are set up on a grid, but not Atlanta. TCO is absolutely right. The 75/85 connector is the epicenter of hell. Especially the north end where 400, 75 and 85 all come together within a mile and a half. You simply can't bring a major city's major highways together in one spot. Then trying to move all that traffic right through the center of town is friggin ridiculous. What the hell were our city planners thinking?

^^ Yeh, spider. Just doing what I can to keep us safe. Wish I could do more.
dude, i love this city so much, but....god dman it. When i drop my gf off at work in Buckhead sometimes, i come back on 400/85 around 2....and theres still rush hour proportion traffic stopped on 75/85. It takes me 30 mins-hour to go 7 miles back to her apartment!!!!!!!!11