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The winning entry in the U.S. PIRG 21st Century Transportation Video Contest, via Streetsblog.

Ed McMahon of the Urban Land Institute spoke in Savannah in 2006 about the Georgia Department of Transportation’s decision to widen a road in Atlanta to 23 lanes, which will make it the largest road in the history of the world!  It made him think of Einstein’s definition of insanity, to keep doing the same thing while expecting things to change.

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From  WTOC-TV:

“My biggest concern is that some neighbors may have to be uprooted,” said Irene Hines of Tatumville, an area that would also be affected by any changes. Others were concerned about their neighborhoods being disturbed, or the noise from the extra lanes of traffic.

Read more and watch video here.

From the Savannah Morning News:

The community meeting was the first public workshop to examine development along the midtown east-west connector. And while it is the third study attempted in about a decade, this one began with citizen input and assurances that traffic considerations would be weighed against the need to protect the neighborhoods and the desire to create more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly pathways.

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From the Savannah Morning News:

From the Savannah Morning News:

Some of the people being asked to support the latest study have been some of the most ardent critics of past efforts. Count Su Su Cox among them. In 2005, the study called Connecting Savannah sought out residents, then disregarded their input in recommending a widening plan that called for razing homes, she said.

Some residents felt so used in the process, she said, they formed Preserving Savannah Neighborhoods, a community group that began closely monitoring zoning and development. She is skeptical of the new effort but willing to participate - up to a point - if it means there is a chance for neighborhood beautification.

“It is not about widening,” she said. “I am not participating in this if widening, elevating or tunneling is part of the process.”

She sees this latest study as an opportunity for the city to show it is committed to preserving neighborhoods.

Read more here.