#Beltline

[stfuidontwanturconversation]

[theinfamousjettjaxkson]

Outside look decent on me

[yungslaye]

Run! It's Godzilla!!!

[cattymayonnaise]

me & my gnome

[fiercemillennial]

Atlanta: More Than Just Peach Trees

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[punchingup101]

Getting to Know Atlanta Thru Its Graffiti

By Isabel De Los Santos Ramirez

Having an assignment like this, where I had the opportunity to connect with classmates outside of the classroom doing something as simple as walking and looking at art was such a relief. I had fun and learned more about Atlanta and the ways people feel through art. Graffiti is one of the many ways an individual can reclaim space and express feelings, including resistance, without really hurting anyone. I think it is appealing to the eye and definitely serves its purpose of evoking emotion. I once heard someone say “you can’t really know and appreciate a city until you know and appreciate its graffiti”, so I am now at peace with having seen fragments of the graffiti in Atlanta as I will be living here for a while.  During the walk I saw many different kinds of people and different types of graffiti, but, wow, the juxtaposition of it all being in the same space made everything much more significant. Here are some of my favorite works from that day: 

[ashthejoker]

Always some cool ppl on the Beltline in Midtown

[djchrisjamaica]

PUTTY invites you to his Birthday Celebration.. TODAY!!! Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ CLUB FRENZY - Top Notch Plaza / Beltline, Knock-Patrick (Manchester). Music By: DJ CHRIS (Zodiac Sound). ADM: Support Di Bar & Kitchen ・・・ #ClubFrenzy #TopNotchPlaza #Beltline #KnockPatrick #Manchester #djchrisjamaica #ZodiacSound (at Manchester Parish) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coki0A9OUFA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[atlantathecity]

I understand why this argument is a tough sell, but I still believe I'm right:

We shouldn't offer free parking on streets next to Atlanta Beltline entry points. Either make some money off of those spaces to fund local services, or get rid of them and replace them with bike lanes and better sidewalks.

The Beltline will always be a drive-to attraction to some degree, but I feel like we need to shift the focus so that it's much less of a park-and-bike attraction and more of a true urban transportation route.

[atlurbanist]

Build rail for tomorrow's city, not today's

Darin Givens | April 23, 2024

There are many logical reasons to cast a critical eye on the streetcar extension to the Eastside Beltline, and we should never spend this much money without arguing.

But folks, please stop acting like we can only build rail for the current conditions in a place -- this wrong assumption is the foundation for too many arguments against Beltline rail. We should build rail for the future version of Atlanta.

Obviously, we've screwed up in the past and built rail for "current conditions" and not for walkable growth, and that's a set of mistakes we should remember...

We built the MARTA heavy-rail system to serve as commuter lines to a Downtown Central Business District as it existed in the 1970s, but the system ended up being dwarfed by both job sprawl and residential sprawl, while too many of our rail stations were ensconced in parking lots and low-density development.

And we built a streetcar for tourists that runs mostly empty throughout the week because we included no walkable-density plan, leaving it surrounded by too many parking lots and empty properties -- and saddling it with interstate access points that challenge walkability.

So let's learn from our mistakes and start matching investment in high-capacity transit with transit-supportive density for the future. Is the Beltline a great place for doing that? I think so. It's a growth corridor, and the route is level for rail with only a few tricky intersections.

I think it's absolutely a good thing for people to disagree and have healthy debate about this, but the debate needs to be informed by the fact that building rail for current conditions is a mistake, as evidenced by our past, and that remedying that mistake means thinking about high-capacity transit in a new way.

Opposing Beltline rail in terms of what the conditions are on the corridor today is a bad faith argument. It's unfair to the future of the city to burden it with more of that same problematic planning decisions of the past.

[keepchangingandneverstop]

Day 480 - face of a tired bitch who just ordered sleep earplugs

[yungslaye]

Taurus gang ♉️

[doggerell]

randomly didnt get scheduled on friday at my coffee job (all the kids are out of school and want shifts ig) so I guess I get to go on one of my little walks in the morning :)

[wisteriaed]

The Beltline connector to Ponce City Market

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Shot on Samsung Galaxy S21 FE

May 11, 2023

[threadatl]

Missed opportunities for public benefits with the Atlanta Beltline

A new 12 minute video on the Atlanta Beltline, produced by CNBC, covers the missed opportunities of the project as a catalyst for equitable, transit-adjacent growth; which is something that's sorely needed in a sprawling region where MARTA rail wasn't allowed to reach its potential capacity in the 1970s 

In the video, Amanda Rhein of the Atlanta Land Trust notes that the city lost a chance to devote properties to affordable housing near the Beltline early on: 

"Today, to some extent, we are trying to catch up. It would have been great if we had an opportunity to secure more land earlier in the life of the Beltline because property values continue to increase in close proximity to the project."

The land trust model helps low-income people buy homes by having them purchase only the structure itself, while signing a lease for the land. Even as property values in an area rise, this model helps residents avoid exposure to debt and foreclosure. And speaking of property values, GSU professor Dan Immergluck (author of Red Hot City) points out that the rise in Atlanta's values since the Beltline project started should have been put to good public use, stating: 

"If you walk around the city, the state of the sidewalks is horrendous. It's one of the worst cities for biking. These are all things that the growth in the city's land value should have benefited, and haven't. The city is constantly talking about being in a state of austerity, not being able to hire police. The schools are constantly under budget restraints. It doesn't make sense."

It all serves as a warning for other cities that are embarking on majorly transformative projects. Make sure that there are public benefits. But it's also a lesson Atlanta can use in the future. If we end up following through on freeway caps like the Stitch, we need to bake equitable benefits into it from the start by guaranteeing land for permanently affordable homes.