Call 511 every time. If it eventually damages your wheel or tire you can submit a claim for reimbursement as well

@@judgesh No, its like everywhere like all cities but ngl i dont even hit them im just saying cause they are so raggedy.

Right! It looks like it's gonna be even more noodles in Spaghetti Junction. But honestly, every major exchange on 285 is gonna look like that. 75/285 already does and so does 400/285. Spaghetti Junction isnt so specual as it was years ago.

With all due respect, your concern is exactly why this is being constructed. The express lanes, along with the direct express-to-street exits, are intended to allow for better transit connectivity. Buses can use the express lanes for free, rather than sit in traffic.

@@elevatorsof14s totally get that! i think the concern is that non-exclusive express lanes could still end up with congestion just as bad as the normal lanes

Agreed!

Free lanes like the ones in Toronto would induce much more demand than tolled lanes as proposed here. You have no idea what induced demand is.

Have you seen 95 in Miami-Dade County? They have high priced toll lanes too yet all lanes free and toll are gridlocked at least from photos I have seen. Same thing for I-10 in Houston at rush hour

@user-uo7fw5bo1o No, I haven't. The theory is that rush-hour tolls can be set high enough to drive enough users away to keep the lanes moving. I don't understand why the agency that runs those lanes wouldn't do that, but it's something that could easily be changed.

@@user-uo7fw5bo1o I did some research on this and discovered that, while the tolls in Miami and likely Houston seem high to you, in fact they're capped. Capping tolls prevents the lanes from being managed correctly, thus creating congestion where there shouldn't be any. The Transurban lanes in northern Virginia don't have caps on their tolls and thus operate efficiently all the time unless there's a crash or some other incident. Here's the kicker: The Transurban lanes are privately owned and operated, and there's no way that Transurban would've signed a deal to build and operate them if they'd been forbidden to operate them efficiently. Unfortunately, AFAIK, the lanes in Atlanta will be publicly owned and therefore vulnerable to the same political pressure from ignorant people that have caused the Miami and Houston lanes to fail. That may be the most compelling argument against the project.

@user-uo7fw5bo1o I did some research and found that the tolls on the lanes in Miami and Houston are capped, presumably due to political interference by people who don't understand how managed lanes work. The Transurban lanes in northern Virginia are privately owned and free to charge whatever they want, so they're kept at a level that yields rush hour speeds of about 45 mph, near the lanes' capacity, and don't jam up unless there's a crash. The argument that GDOT will be unable to resist political pressure to operate the lanes stupidly is the best argument against them I've heard here. Congratulations. 😄

Last I heard, 400 properties via eminent domain.

Double the width of 285 with normal lanes? Don't be ridiculous. Most of this elevated stuff appears to be within the existing rights of way. That's most of the point of elevating it. Building new lanes, for everyone or otherwise, is cripplingly expensive. Tolling will at least somewhat recoup the cost of these lanes. Why not regional light rail? First, because it's not GDOT's job. Second, because it's cripplingly expensive, too, and it requires subsidies to operate, subsidies that no agency is volunteering to pay. You really should ask better questions.

@@tommarney1561good thing all those other highways projects pay for themselves and driving isn’t subsidized. 😂 jokes aside this money could be better spent on other infrastructure projects that have a better rate of return. Or build an outer belt and make that a toll road.

@@stynkanator I didn't say driving wasn't subsidized. Don't put words in my mouth. What I will say is that the sources of subsidies for driving are well established and are at least partly paid for by fuel taxes-- taxes on driving. You really shouldn't have to have that explained to you.

@@tommarney1561 "Tolling will at least somewhat recoup the cost" To what end? This is an extremely expensive and disruptive project that boxes GDOT in in terms of the ability to expand normal lanes. What's the upside to citizens? They get to have poor road capacity used as leverage to extract money from them, and a lot of people get their land taken by force. I'm sure from GDOT's perspective this is great, because then they can leverage that money into job security for the lifetime of an enormous project, but for the rest of us it's a shakedown. We're better off if they do nothing at all.

@@Foggen Don't dump on me. I'm here to criticize the dumb arguments that ignorant people are making here, not to be a target for every passing troll. If you want to denounce this project here, make your own post and leave me TF out of it. But, since you've made a dumb argument yourself, I guess I'll have to point out that directly recouping costs through tolls is a self-evident good, and one that only a tiny proportion of highway projects even attempt.

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A friend of mine his grandfather had a farm with upside-down bowl shape hills he was going to remove. But he found human bone so he contacted the state archeological department. They were Mound Builder , the state excavated all the mounds ( 3) removed everything, to him he could remove the hills. He never got to see everything they removed this was 1970. There are 3 more they were never told of, here no one can dig for artifacts only surface hunt. Which I have done since I was 7 with my older brother,I am 68 right now.

@@alanbrooke3237 This happened on an unimaginable scale when whites first got here. Entire cities were razed, looted, burnt to the ground and buried so that the common man would never know that what is now the US had actual cities that rivaled the largest populations of any European city! The Natives across the entire US were devastated by the diseases of the English and French from the North and south and the Spanish from the west! The natives were coming down with small pox and other diseases that they'd never been exposed to and entire villages would die off except one or a few then those people would go to the next village and it would wipe that one out, the plagues spread across the US like a damned wildfire! Wiped the majority of the native populations right off the face of the earth and THAT is why the Europeans were finding villages full of empty homes or piles of bones... You'll NEVER hear it from the "educators" or historians though as it would cost them their careers!

GA, is a pretty cool state. I’ve had a fairly agreeable experience during dealings with the State government.

The reason is because we were not there when it was happening and everything is based on radio carbon dating which is very broad. The only way to really know is if you had been there!

@@davidperry5631 I agree. They only really guess as educatedly as they can

@@iwalkincircles2960 They use the appearance of small projectile points to indicate arrow use.

"LeCroix " points are found in my area which is in the area of the former Grand Kankakee Marsh in Northwestern Indiana. I've found 20 or 30 in life besides 5 Clovis points close to a farm in LaPorte County where numerous Mammoth and Sabre Tooth skulls found.

Hi, one of the authors here.. thank you for the compliment! To your question - while not discussed much in the video, hypothetical possibilities of pre-Clovis were definitely considered in the research design, as this site is not far from the Topper site. We took portions of the excavation block well down into hardpan layers, these had OSL age estimates as old as 42,000 years before present. This layer was culturally sterile (no artifacts). There was a disconformity between this deeper layer and the superimposed artifact-bearing layers which dated from the Mid-Holocene. This disconformity was likely caused by scouring erosion during the Early Holocene, which unfortunately would have eliminated the upper layers of any buried late Pleistocene surfaces. All that to say, due to preservation conditions, the area excavated did not preserve information, one way or the other, about Clovis or hypothetical pre-Clovis.

@@rmoss42 Thank You for the Reply, this is great news. I hope more Archaeologist understand the possibility, that older artifacts might be below the Clovis horizon. Thanks Again Paul

I'd be interested to know if before washing all of the artifacts, if there were any Immunological Analysis completed.

Bullshyte! To control the information! The history of the American lands that WE know is nothing but a lie to fit a narrative! Native Americans stupid savages! The government STILL will not admit destroying entire cities here that rivaled anything Europe had to offer at the time. They destroyed or hauled away artifacts that could PROVE that the people here before we came along were THEIR EQUALS! Why? because they were afraid that the people would balk at the genocide of intelligent humans!