Plans miss root cause of our long commutes
Perhaps we are looking at the lengthy commute problem with tunnel vision.
The T-SPLOST proposal assumes that the cause is a lack of infrastructure, so the solution is to spend money to acquire more, so that we can continue to move masses of people great distances every day. Perhaps people live too far from their jobs.
If we could move the workplaces instead of moving the people, that would also alleviate the problem. What if we encourage businesses to move out of the city to places outside I-285? This could shorten commutes and balance the traffic. People could gravitate to jobs closer to where they live.
Decentralization may be a far better solution to the lengthy commute problem than continuing to try to cram more and more people into a limited space every day.
Carolyn Angel, Marietta
Cartoon tells the truth about GOP right wing
Mike Luckovich’s political cartoon (Opinion, May 23) was spot on. The hard right has and is discarding Republicans who dare to be moderate or want to compromise across the aisle in the interests of our country.
Some very good Republicans are fighting for their seats; some are losing in primaries and others are discouraged and not running for re-election.
The hard right has made it a credo that it will not compromise on anything and this is a part of its campaign rhetoric. That’s not patriotism.
Pass along my thanks to Luckovich for a job well done.
Max Epling, Canton
Don’t just limit gifts, make them illegal
What’s this about a limit (or cap) on gifts to politicians? Small bribes, but no big ones — is that it?
A bribe is a bribe is a bribe. Any politician who accepts anything of value from any person, company or organization with business before the government belongs in jail.
Jim Miller, Hoschton
Blame poor planning for mess at airport
Your headline “$1.4 billion later, glitches surface” (News, May 25) was too kind.
I had the misfortune of returning from a business trip to London recently.
The flight arrived at Concourse E, an unreasonable distance from the new terminal.
There was a long line waiting for undersized shuttle buses, which were arriving at unreasonably lengthy intervals. There is no way to take the “plane train” back to the domestic terminal. I took a taxi to the domestic terminal.
Are we to believe that for $1.4 billion no one thought passengers might need to return to their cars, get to MARTA or need a rental car? These “glitches” were the result of design flaws and mismanagement.
Barry Kriegel, Atlanta
