Friday, August 28, 2009
News Oxendine: Build an interstate through East Atlanta? Let's talk!
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Good morning, John Oxendine, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate. What bad ideas do you have for us this morning? Oh, you think we should talk about building a "parallel downtown connector" that could plow through most of East Atlanta! OK. Lemme just first clean up all this coffee I spit all over my desk.
Oxendine pitches the idea — along with a Western Bypass, a new Northern Arc, and a couple of other projects that will most likely never get built — in this campaign video.
Building a massive asphalt artery through some of the city's most vibrant neighborhoods isn't going to win Oxendine any support inside the perimeter.
But this pie-in-the-sky idea, which will most likely never happen, could win the gubernatorial hopeful points with the North Fulton crowd, a tried and true Republican enclave that's thought to most likely favor Karen Handel. The Ox says that people who live in the Ga. 400 and I-85 corridors — unlike potential voters in Cobb County — don't have the luxury of bypassing the city.
But anything to get Georgia out of gridlock, right?
(H/T to Jim Galloway)
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