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What We Learned This Week
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Residential News
The WSJ says we don’t need to get worked up [...]
Georgia going after rail funds…
It seems the timing on my first infrastructure post was impeccable. GDOT announced on Thursday that it would seek federal funding for rail. It even cleared up my question, to a degree, on where the missing link from Louisville to Atlanta was. Well, President Obama’s plan has it missing, but apparently the various state DOTs [...]
Part 1 – Atlanta Infrastructure – Where we are and where we need to go
Metro-Atlanta was not geographically located very well for the now 5.7+ million inhabitants that call it home. First, the only major water source is the Chattahoochee River, a very small river by drainage basin standards, especially where it feeds metro-Atlanta’s primary drinking source – Lake Lanier. The topography is extreme for a large city – [...]
Time for Georgia's "Balancing Law" to hit the highway
As with many things that government does, laws with good intentions often have very bad consequences. Such was the case of Georgia’s “Balancing Law” – the law which requires that equal amounts of Georgia Department of Transportation’s budget be spent equally among the states 13 congressional districts.
Taking a look at Georgia’s congressional district map, you [...]