I am pleased that Jay Bookman recognizes the problems with excessively costly rail systems.
More transit is better than less, and more can be obtained with lower cost solutions.
Mr. Bookman, however, misunderstands our proposal for an arterial street grid. Atlanta will expand by nearly 40 percent over the next quarter century. This provides a genuine opportunity to provide the roadway system in the newly developed areas that is absent in the core. There, other, less intrusive solutions are available, such as strategic road widenings, better traffic management and some efficient Paris-style roadway tunnels. Mr. Bookman also misses the fact that Los Angeles traffic problems are the result of a density three times that of Atlanta, not its roadway system.