Georgia needs a Traffic Czar with emergency powers to enact whatever is needed to get transportation issues solved. This state is suffocating on its own success, one exhaust pipe at a time. Consistent laws and construction is needed to move people more efficiently around the bottle-necked back roads and freeways around the Atlanta and the suburbs. No more time for communities complaining about bringing MARTA to their doorstep. Peach Pass permits should allow drivers to accelerate up to 100 mph in the left lanes of all Interstates, not just 85 or 75 or 20 or 316. The reworking of Georgia 400 and 85 should have begun yesterday, and so does the Downtown Connector. Blake Giles writes a fair article concerning some of the more shady attempts by the Board of Commissioners Chairman in trying to railroad down a connector for one of his constituents. We cannot stand by and watch our leaders try to pave the roads of the future with political favoritism from the past. County roads connect and di...
