Atlanta Regional Commission - Fact, fiction or do they matter at all?

This post may be updated from time to time - depending on the importance of this commission.

According to Charles Krauter (ARC Director), the "PLAN 2040" (whatever anyone knows about 30 years from now...) is based on 2 requirements - A federal requirement to perform a long range transportation plan every six (6) years and a Georgia state requirement from the Department of Community Affairs to perform a regional development plan every 5 years (in other words, they are planning to plan).

This may be the first time the ARC is developing a comprehensive plan (oh yeah, what have they been doing so far - pocket pool?).  How much have the citizens of Georgia spent on the ARC and how many "solutions" have they presented to solve "real" problems.

ARC estimates that the 20 county metro Atlanta area will grow by 3 million people totalling about 8.3 m million.

The ARC outlines some challenges for the area like availability of water, aging population, 75% of the population have no other option to drive to other destinations, and the area needs more funds and better management of those funds.

Bottom line:  Watch out for the ARC to come to the conclusion we need to build more rail transportation...but between which two cities and who will profit from this construction?

Source:  Atlanta Business Chronicle, 11-5 thru 11, 2010, Page 4A.

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