What planet do these fools live on? Office workers don't commute from the suburbs to the city - service workers do! Rich office workers can afford to live downtown if they work downtown, and the ones who live in the suburbs usually work in suburban office parks!!
They obviously picked this up from NYC and London where car ownership in the cities is comparably low but you get loads of people from the suburbs car-commuting in and expecting the city to accomodate this shit and that's pretty bad. Having been to London after the congestion charge I dare not imagine what the fuck that moloch looks like with 30% more cars about.
The difference is you can argue driving in NYC or London is a luxury, people have alternatives. Not as much the case in Atlanta, especially when you're talking about poor service workers coming in from suburbs they've been pushed out to.
What planet do these fools live on? Office workers don't commute from the suburbs to the city - service workers do! Rich office workers can afford to live downtown if they work downtown, and the ones who live in the suburbs usually work in suburban office parks!!
Never attribute to malice etc. etc.
They obviously picked this up from NYC and London where car ownership in the cities is comparably low but you get loads of people from the suburbs car-commuting in and expecting the city to accomodate this shit and that's pretty bad. Having been to London after the congestion charge I dare not imagine what the fuck that moloch looks like with 30% more cars about.
The difference is you can argue driving in NYC or London is a luxury, people have alternatives. Not as much the case in Atlanta, especially when you're talking about poor service workers coming in from suburbs they've been pushed out to.
This is not my experience. Most rich office workers move to the suburbs when they have kids and still commute downtown.
Interesting, my personal experience is the vast majority of white collar work is nowhere near a downtown area, usually it's in suburban office parks.
(before covid) high rise office buildings weren't just empty all the time