Theory: Atlanta is a Testing Ground for Disabling Major Traffic Thoroughfares.
35 2017-12-20 by lily_levasseur
Within the past year, the following travel thourogfares have been completely shut down due to random infrastructure failures:
I85
I20
ATL International Airport
11 comments
1 jingram2 2017-12-20
Obviously
1 halobob98 2017-12-20
Slight pattern makes you wonder why would someone want to know how Atl deals with a crisis relating to how fast people can leave the city
1 CivilianConsumer 2017-12-20
Maybe go see if their AI models are accurate?
1 birdman5000 2017-12-20
i think you're probably on to something. that bridge collapse shit was sketchy af. the awful traffic that Atlanta is known for, combined with the high population density makes it a perfect test case for shutting down traffic flow and observing the effects.
1 misella_landica 2017-12-20
Nah, just what happens when a society goes all in on automobiles, then underinvests in infrastructure for a few generations.
1 mobeatie 2017-12-20
I'm guessing Atlanta had something to do with operation cross country
1 RickardSnow 2017-12-20
Yes. Atlanta as an entity derailed a train in Seattle because of reasons!
1 FreshPrinceofEternia 2017-12-20
Lolol
It's just poorly designed roadways and dumbass people who can't drive or won't let people merge into traffic. /Source Live there.
1 Richie209 2017-12-20
Yeah, the real conspiracy is the tax rate to infrastructure maintenance ratio.
1 FreshPrinceofEternia 2017-12-20
Bingo.
1 LurkPro3000 2017-12-20
A few years ago after Katrina, Houstonians were quite hyped by the onslaught of the next hurricane. Preying on this fear, the MSM and local governments all declared that most of Houston and surrounding areas should evacuate. The evacuation was completely unnecessary, and the resulting MASSIVE traffic jam from people fleeing actually caused more deaths and damage than the actual hurricane.
Pretty sure they ran that as an exercise of mass panicked evacuation of the area just to study what would happen.