Believe It Or Not: Atlanta Traffic Getting Worse

From the AJC: "New census estimates released Wednesday tell the sorry transportation tale. The year 2006 added 6,864 metro Atlantans who spend 90 minutes or more on their average commute, one way. That's a total of 88,023 "extreme commuters." The number of those who spend between an hour and an hour-and-a-half one-way rose to 225,964."

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It seems pretty clear that Atlanta is in a tough position here, there simply isn't enough population density in most parts of the city to necesitate greater coverage by MARTA (even if there was, there certainly isn't enough money floating around to pay for something like that). In my mind, it appears that Atlanta's traffic woes will only get worse in the near future as the local real estate market adjusts to the increased costs associated with long-distance commutes.