Next week is the final meeting for public comment on Cobb County’s proposed long-range mobility plan. The plan is to include recommendations on potential transit expansion.
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ARC still accepting responses to 2019 Regional Commuter Survey
Metro Atlanta commuters who received a postcard about a survey being conducted by the Atlanta Regional Commission still have time to respond and enter to win one of 50 Amazon gift cards valued at $250. The deadline is Sunday, March 31.
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A New, ‘Shared’ Vision for Peachtree Street
By Kate Sweeney Imagine a street where bicycles, cars, pedestrians, and yes, even motorized scooters all share the same space, with no markings such as sidewalks or bike paths to delineate where each should go. Shared streets, as they’re often called, are popular in other countries, particularly in Europe. (The Dutch call them woonerfs, or “living […]
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Arts, culture in ATL: ARC approves long-awaited plan to expand programs
The murals, performances, farmers markets and soccer events becoming more prevalent at MARTA rail stations are the types of arts and culture offerings the Atlanta Regional Commission intends to foster across the region through a new strategic plan.
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These 50 Potential Projects Offer Vision for Region’s Transit Future
By: Paul Donsky, Atlanta Regional Commission Here’s an intriguing blank slate, sky’s-the-limit question: what should metro Atlanta’s transit network look like in the future? The kicker: You don’t have to factor in cost. Every few years, transportation planners and local officials come together to provide an answer, creating a detailed project list that serves as […]
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Poll: Metro Atlantans vexed by transportation, housing prices
Metro Atlanta is still fed up with traffic and folks in parts of it are pretty willing to pay more for expanded transit, according to the latest edition of a long-running regional survey. Also, pretty much everyone everywhere thinks they’re paying too much for housing.
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Could Self-Driving Shuttles be Coming to Chamblee?
By Jim Jaquish Imagine tapping an app on your phone and just a few minutes later, a car shows up to take you wherever you want to go at an affordable price. Oh right. You can already do that. Now imagine that the vehicle pulling up to your curb has no driver. The city of […]
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Atlanta region needs to refresh annual LINK trips
For 22 years, an impressive group of metro Atlanta civic, business and government leaders have spent three days a year visiting a North American city to learn how other cities are handling their urban challenges.
The LINK trips also have provided people an opportunity to get to know each other – connecting with leaders from different races, genders and sections of the Atlanta region as well as people from different circles of influence.
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ARC & Georgia Tech Partner to Help Communities Outside Atlanta’s Urban Core Get ‘Smart’
Think of the phrase “smart community.” You likely envision transportation technology in the big city—self-driving cars, or vehicles like fire trucks and city buses zooming through multi-lane intersections without once hitting a red light, thanks to powerful technology connecting them to the infrastructure they travel through. But there’s a lot more to the potential of […]
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Regional Arts Leadership: An Investment Worth the Price
By Doug Hooker, Executive Director of the Atlanta Regional CommissionArts and culture are both an important asset and a critical sector for metro Atlanta. For one, as a region we certainly benefit from the economic impact of both commercial and nonprofit arts. The nonprofit arts sector alone has a $719 million annual financial impact and […]
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Recognizing the economic value of the arts in Atlanta
By Tom Cunningham, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Metro Atlanta Chamber Last month the Atlanta Regional Commission produced a Forum on the Arts and Economic Prosperity. The event focused on the most recent in a series of reports produced by the American for the Arts organization that attempts to document the economic contribution of […]
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Pursuing Resiliency on a Regional Scale
By George Dusenbury, Trust for Public Land A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the release of the City of Atlanta’s Resiliency Strategy. The City is to be congratulated for being named one of the world’s 100 Resilient Cities, and for having Otis Rolley of the Rockefeller Foundation calling Atlanta’s Resiliency […]
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Metro Atlanta population grows by more than 78,000
The 10 counties of metro Atlanta together have absorbed enough new residents to fill a good-sized city in just a year, according to a new estimate.
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ARC’s ConnectATL Summit to Help Region Prepare for Future of Mobility
It seems like science fiction: Self-driving vehicles that can be summoned on demand; smart traffic signals that monitor and optimize traffic flow; connected cars that “talk” to each other and avoid collisions. But technology is advancing quickly, and experts say this future may actually be close at hand. It promises to fundamentally transform our region […]
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ARC announces nearly $1 million in planning grants to help 11 metro communities
The ongoing effort to shape the redevelopment of Memorial Drive received a shot in the arm from the Atlanta Regional Commission, which provided a grant to fund further studies through its Livable Centers Initiative.
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Metro Atlanta leaders headed to Dallas for 20th LINK trip
The 2016 LINK trip to Dallas – scheduled from May 4 to May 7 – will mark the Atlanta region’s 20th anniversary of the annul visit to peer cities – providing metro leaders an opportunity to reflect on the value of the trips and consider their future.
About 110 metro Atlanta leaders are scheduled to be on the three-day to the Dallas-Fort Worth area – studying transportation, urban planning, downtown renaissance, the arts, education, millennials, suburban development and regional economic development.
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Fort McPherson to open Saturday for fall festival, workshop to plan area redevelopment
The second community workshop to discuss the long-range plans for redeveloping Fort McPherson and its surroundings is scheduled for Saturday and is to coincide with a fall festival that’s aimed at building good will with the community.
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Fulfilling a dream: Metro Atlanta’s civic leaders fund public art
Public art will be installed in four metro Atlanta communities through an effort funded by local civic leaders who were so moved by a public art program in Philadelphia that they wanted to start a similar one here.
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Civic elders ask millennials to engage with community; How will they respond?
This may be a breakout year for millennials in metro Atlanta because the region’s current leaders are actively encouraging young folks to join them in the public realm. One question is the form the relationship will take.
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Atlanta leaders travel to Canada for ideas exchange
More than 100 Atlanta leaders are in Toronto, Canada this week. It’s part of the annual LINK exchange – when municipal heads travel to other cities to meet the people who run them. Maria Saporta of the Saporta Report is in Toronto with the delegation. She told Amy Kiley what Atlanta leaders are learning up North. […]
