Midtown Connector Project - A Greener Heart for Atlanta

[@meanvecktor1900]

Come on Atlanta lets make it happen

[@edencwj]

This looks and sounds amazing. I would love to see this, it would help stitch East and West Midtown back together. I’m actually thinking how strange it is that I can see the Tech’s sports complex and campus on the west side from my apartment, but I’ve never go there because it’s not easy to get to. Instead I always run to piedmont park, which is at least 2-3 times further.

[@dannyg5446]

That might actually work. Just put all our urban interstates underground. Cars can get past in large volume and our city centers remain quiet and connected. It’s a win win

[@0shadowgrace0]

yeah as long as commuters are cool with choking on the smog that will build up underground everyday. commuters get lung cancer, atl has less commuters. win win

[@DC.402]

Definitely a win especially with our lack of alternative routes burying the highways is the only solution

[@Antandthegrasshopper]

"When completed" was the key word in this whole presentation. Knowing Atlanta this project will start in 10 years and complete in another 10. I lived in Midtown for 10 years and when I moved they had plan to convert Juniper St from North Ave to 14th and make it into a garden street called "StreetScape" was supposed to be completed by 2020. I've moved to FL now and they are still sitting on their hands. Sorry Atalnta you just don't have what it takes to get this done. I'd only call beltline as partial success. Even that is not completed yet!

[@AA-hj8er]

I thought the exact same thing. Everything in America takes forever to complete it's outrageous. China and Dubai can erect things in weeks and we are so behind. The Dallas trinity river project was proposed over 12 years ago and they haven't even started. The list of uncompleted projects all over is ridiculous.

[@TommyJonesProductions]

It's Midtown. They throw up a new high rise apartment building while you blink. Atlanta moves fast, but it is held back by the backwards State of GA.

[@Ace-bh8lm]

@@AA-hj8er I’d rather projects to take long than live with a government like Dubai and China

[@ausxau]

Ten years to start? Oh you're romantic, aren't you? It would take 20 years to complete and would be $5b over budget in the end

[@tinhornproductions4769]

Wow this is incredible. This is exactly the kind of infrastructure that Atlanta needs. I can’t wait to see how this project transforms the entire city.

[@SAJDES]

what a wonderful idea...I love it...

[@chipe.stewart9576]

Now that's a great idea.

[@jimpern]

A great idea, if you can get it done soon. In Atlanta projects like these either take forever or never get done at all. And make sure that the highway tunnel is well-lighted and that those lights are maintained. Greater Atlanta has the poorest freeway lighting in the nation, and GDOT doesn't seem to want to do anything about it!

[@dariomendoza191]

FORWARD to The FUTURE ATL town!!!!

[@thumuslol]

This would be incredible

[@inmylane4ever]

Incredible!!!

[@burdrchitect1680]

Just saw the renderings for the event space at the park and it's absolutely beautiful. Please don't change the design. It reminds me of a phoenix raising out of ashes.

[@kennixox262]

IF that were to come to pass, repairing the gash that is the downtown connector would be a massive improvement to the area.

[@princejones6297]

Can't wait

[@princejones6297]

I love it

[@williamcarlson5405]

From WC, All I can say is good luck, it’s going to cost a fortune, and I hope you can reduce the ATL crime rate! My son & daughter-in-law are hopeful but not so sure of success, and they live there!

[@burdrchitect1680]

The crime rate is as bad as other cities. It's going to take the community as a whole to help reduce crime. Don't put it all on the government. They need assistance as well from the residents. The DA is working on taking down the gangs around Atlanta and hopefully it leads to the metro as a whole. Stay positive. Atlanta can be a be an great city for all. Community Teamwork makes the Dream work.

[@josephtittle55]

This would make Atlanta a clean a safe city.

[@mitchellc2723]

lol

[@Boxhead42]

Safe? Not until Atlanta does something about its crime problem.

[@1990BornBaby]

​@@Boxhead42 crime is the result of the problem, not the root of it. If we can figure out a way to have the entire community benefit from these great changes rather than just a select few, we will have a more harmonious outcome. I think the fact that multiple mega projects around the city will increase tax revenue to improve the local schools is a great start!

[@jwh335]

Excited about this but disappointed it will house apartments instead of condos. Too many things in Midtown are only available for rent

[@rvallozzi]

Anyone know what the status of this is?

[@GCBWes]

This sounds great, but how do you keep tent cities from popping up in the middle of all this? How do you keep the crime out of all this? Will police presence be seen throughout this? Will the tunnel become like the bridge on Bell St with all the homeless sleeping under it for shade?

[@MrMountainchris]

Do this in all American cities! Cars destroyed our country.

[@quonogatorgetaa4626]

10 city blocks is 320 acres

[@ajatl3434]

If other cities did this some quarter of a century ago, then why are we just now getting to it? And btw, is this the STITCH? Or an earlier proposed planned project? Bc, if it is, it seems like the goal post has been moved several times! Just saying!

[@thetrainguy1]

So... No train as well?

[@Boxhead42]

Atlanta already has heavy and light rail. Under those buildings is a subway system.

[@ronniescales188]

Real Talk... What a beautiful project !!! I As a local REALTOR, I have faith that it will get done. However, I am concerned about the homeless people in and around the area. Also, the inside emergency/hazard lanes on both sides of the freeway should be wider for safety reasons...

[@jacbrito]

The elevated pedestrian walk in serpentine shape is an eye sore. Dont built that.

[@MidnightBreezey]

Yeah, but an 8 lane highway totally isn't 🙄

[@blast4me754]

@@MidnightBreezey Take your butt to the country if you want the feel of the country side.

[@jarvisstradford7211]

Where all that traffic going to go

[@MidnightBreezey]

Nowhere. The highway would become a tunnel with the park built over it.

[@jarvisstradford7211]

@@MidnightBreezey that's straight BS

[@MidnightBreezey]

@@jarvisstradford7211 they spend half the video explaining that...

[@jarvisstradford7211]

@@MidnightBreezey doesn't matter still BS

[@ShenardL]

@@jarvisstradford7211 Why is it BS? Many other cities built caps over freeways - lookup Boston's Big Dig.

[@seand67]

There are too many distracted drivers in Atlanta.....they won't put the phones down and more crashes will take place

[@njg12345678]

I like the Connector Project but why break it up with more cross streets. My son goes to Georgia Tech and North Avenue, 5th St and 10th street are plenty of ways to get from Midtown to the Georgia Tech campus and Midtown West further on. Why break up Georgia Tech's campus with more streets cutting through it.

[@0shadowgrace0]

imagine the smog from the daily traffic in the highway. this is a useless pipedream

[@My-by]

Aren’t we green enough!

[@ATLMike94]

No. We have a big ugly highway running through our city

[@LaneCorbett]

@@ATLMike94 and they keep expanding it and building more City instead of fixing what we have.

[@TheMexxodus]

American urban planning always amazes me .... Really this highway with uncountable and disgusting number of lanes is only used by "local" traffic? Then simply scrap all the lanes instead of building a park over it. It's a nice excuse like the Boston big dig to not fundamentally change anything about car centricity. You just hide it under a park ... Lame.

[@burdrchitect1680]

The city of Atlanta technically has over 500k residents. Everyone else works or drives through to look at the buildings..lol.

[@MrEeeaddict]

not everyone works from home buddy

[@1990BornBaby]

@@burdrchitect1680 I believe this project and others are in anticipation of future population growth and higher density in the city which is inevitable with all the new development projects. Reconnecting the city in this way is like adding healthy arteries to increase blood flow and an overall healthier and more productive community

[@MateusChristopher]

They should get ride of all the lanes in traffic. Why would anyone wany to be in a park thats flanked with cars....?

[@RodgerGraham-q2l]

I really really really hate Atlanta

[@willrusso]

This is a terrible idea. Y'all gone mess up the best view of the city

[@stevetatum4169]

Visitors won't get to see Atlanta. They'll only see a tunnel. And good luck getting to the accident victims stuck inside the traffic-jammed underground tunnel in an emergency when open-air access and fresh air is blocked off and replaced by toxic fire smoke. Leave it open and just build a bike trail grid above it.

[@willp.8120]

What a DUMB IDEA. I, like many other people, LIKE looking at the skyscrapers and buildings as I am driving down the Connector. I don't want it capped so I'm driving through a dark tunnel, all so you can make traffic miserable for years and make the situation worse than it is. There's already plenty of parks. Stop with this nonsense.

[@PHlyestofNerds]

It’s a great idea. Get out of your car and look at the skyscrapers

[@holdyourownnuts182]

I said the same thing.....who wanna drive through and sit in a congested tunnel breathing in car fumes, while missing out on the city views. The people that's supporting this nonsense have lost their marbles. Atlanta will have more parks than residents if they continue with this foolishness. The east and west connector that runs through the city is what makes Atlanta great. .

[@cisium1184]

1. This being Atlanta, I have bigtime reservations about how well this project actually would be executed. That said, when you are driving, you need to keep your eyes off the buildings and on the damn road. If this makes you do that, that's a good thing. Most Atlanta skyscrapers are hideous Lego boxes anyway, so if you like them you probably have bad taste in architecture. 2. As for "mak[ing] the traffic miserable," the traffic is already miserable, it has been miserable for 40 years, and I daresay most of it is from people who don't actually live in the city of Atlanta. I think this project's intent is to try to reclaim a large strip of land that is currently given over to commuters who don't even live in the city proper. I don't see how that's a bad thing from either a civic standpoint or a commercial one. 3. As a someone who _does_ live in the city proper, why should I care about the windshield vista preferences of people who don't? Especially when some of those people specifically seceded from Atlanta so that that they could better control the affairs of their own towns - a principle I support? I say this as a political conservative whose views get essentially no representation in my own city; I can only imagine how little the Democrats care about what people from Sandy Springs want.

[@godfatherd349]

It's a dumb idea indeed. Its too major a thoroughfare to do this. It can be improved but this ain't it

[@blast4me754]

I hate when people living in the city try to turn the city into the boondocks. If you want the trees, grass, flowers and animals take yourself to a rural area.

[@Red-pt6rs]

hell no.

[@jeremiahpayne4364]

Ong 🤣

[@edencwj]

Why not?

[@Master-kh6ww]

But it would help

[@klimaxxx06]

2040 here we come 🎉😂

[@chipe.stewart9576]

Now that's a great idea.