BRAVES STADIUM
Turner Field traffic
is already a big mess
Much has been made about what the traffic will be like around I-75 and I-285 in the vicinity of the proposed Braves stadium. Many are crying “doom and gloom” and talking about traffic gridlock.
While there may be some truth to these predictions, no one seems to have mentioned the absolute traffic gridlock in the downtown area around and near Turner Field at rush hour when the Braves are playing. Neither the current location, nor the newly proposed location, will remedy any traffic issues.
MIKE DEAL, ALPHARETTA
Baseball coming, there
goes the neighborhood
As someone who lives within 1.5 miles of the proposed new stadium location, I am not happy about the stadium move to my neighborhood. Traffic on Cobb Parkway is atrocious already on certain days during the afternoon rush hour. All the new stadium would do is ruin a perfectly acceptable neighborhood — all for the almighty dollar.
I am very disappointed in Cobb County officials. They are clearly not even thinking about existing residents. This so-called betterment of our neighborhood is only going to make me (a city of Smyrna and Cobb taxpayer) want to move from an area that I chose to live in due to its accessibility to downtown for work.
If I were to live in Gwinnett, north DeKalb or elsewhere, I do not know if I would be willing to deal with the top-end Perimeter or traffic through commercial Dunwoody/Sandy Springs simply to go watch the Braves blow a season at its close.
DAVID J. STEWART, SMYRNA
Team should give up
‘Atlanta’ in its name
With the Braves perhaps leaving Atlanta, they certainly should not be allowed to use “Atlanta” as part of a future team name. And with the controversy surrounding teams with Indian names, we might as well solve that as well.
I’m looking forward to seeing the Cobb County Courageous Native Americans in 2017.
MIKE SMOLA, TYRONE
COMMENTARY
Enough already with
the cartoon elephants
Regarding “Too many elephants; you’re getting boring” (Readers write, Opinion, Nov. 12), the recent letter containing a Johns Creek resident’s statement about the great Mike Luckovich’s editorial cartoons is absolutely correct for so many American voters: “These same old elephants are getting boring.”
MICHAEL FEDACK, ATLANTA
