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I’ll tell you why. They built dumb things that no one wants to come to. Coca Cola…cool.. aquarium..cool. Civic rights museum and college football museum… no one gives a **** lol.

oHHHH noooo. You said the "H" word.

Great video!

Nah this video is an L waymo taking over

Atlanta has Midtown, Bucktown, and also Perimeter - Sandy Spring. These are newer and more bustling commercial areas. Downtown Atlanta has never been The Move. Atlanta sprawl vs a tighter city core in Chicago Loop might be due to zoning.

What a dweeb.

Atlanta is such an ugly inaccessible city, such a shame

as a local we def dont go downtown.. im scared to.

Ayy an Atlanta transit channel! I live in Portland now, but I moved to the west coast in 2021 after living in ATL my whole life. Lived in SF for a bit. Obviously things are a little better over here, but I'm still holding out for hope for my home city to seize on the massive opportunity for improvement! Not just new transit, but improving the existing transit. I got around without a car in Atlanta for years, but it just sucked. I think the thing that made it frustrating was that I knew it didn't have to

Such a socialist agenda in all your videos. Vilifying Uber for using“VC money” which was voluntary in n the part of VC investors. Yet you love the government stealing money from everybody without their consent to fund useless streetcar.

Keep up the fantastic work, Nathan.

The end had me dead lol. As someone who lives in Atlanta, I really hope MARTA gets the necessary improvements (fill-in stations, expansion, etc.) because that is the only way traffic will improve here.

Awesome work! As a SWE at one of these companies, its always nice to take a step back and think very critically of the technology we are building.

Downtown Atlanta is Too Much of a Politically Correct Environment. Downtown Atlanta is WOKE SO IT WILL GO BROKE.

Have you thought of going into city planning? You seem to have a real knack for the issues. I actually just finished my master's at UNC Chapel Hill, and what you talk about here is a lot of what my program talked about in transportation planning.

Thank you Nathan, this is so well stated! We need to support building transit as quickly as possible. Next project up is Beltline rail which starts construction in 2025 and is ready to ride 2028. Anti transit car brains are pushing self driving cars as an “instead” of rail, and we need to stay on top of communicating with our mayor and city council that we want rail!

Okay but hear me out. We replace the beltline with a two-way hyper loop for self-driving cars 🚗 🚙

I literally checked yesterday if you had posted I love Atlanta and I'm a fan of how centric to the city your channel is (also I'm not a bot, just a fan lol)

Is that the Tesla dealership at Briarcliff and Lavista? I live really close to there. I liked it better as a Whole Foods though 😏

Interesting! Thank you

OK! I want your thoughts on future topic ideas. The next video is already planned, but if there's any topics you want me to cover, comment down below 🤝

I worked in downtown Atlanta in the late 90s and early 00s and it was full of people, small businesses, and action during the day and evenings 7 days a week. I went back to downtown I believe last year and the place was completely dead. I understand a lot of cities have become like this since Covid. But still...Atlanta seemed like another level of dead. I was in downtown Denver a few weeks ago and it felt so lively and active. Speaking of Denver, in 1990 Atlanta had 45 miles of rail transit while Denver and Dallas had 0 each. Today, Atlanta has 51 miles while Denver has 113 and Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex has 177. With such horrible traffic, metro Atlanta should be ashamed of itself.

Atlanta native here. Downtown Atlanta has been this was since at least the Urban Renewal era beginning in the 1960s. Most of the major buildings downtown - the CNN Center/Omni Complex, World Congress Center, Apparel Mart/Merchandise Mart, and numerous hotels built by the late architect John Portman Jr., (i.e. Hyatt Regency, Peachtree Plaza, Marriott Marquis) were sold as a silver bullet solution for downtown's woes during the era in which they were built. So much of the historic fabric was lost during that time period and what remains consists of canned, corporate businesses marketed to tourists and business travelers. So, yeah, this is not a new problem.

Downtown Atlanta is great. Did you go to any soul food restaurants while there? If not, you missed out.

I stayed in downtown Atlanta one time for a convention. we were walking around looking for someplace to eat and there was literally nothing for blocks.

Seems dumb to instinctively oppose corporate ownership of those special little single family homes when those are the only ones getting rented out. My family couldn’t afford to buy and we rented a single family home. Much of the opposition is people hating renters

I was just down there and got panhandled the entire time

I love when white liberals tell black people they are poor.

The last thing the state of Georgia wants is for Atlanta to double in population.

REALPAGE rental monopoly.

Yes I live near the eastside beltline and I do not want the rail. I don't see a single successful example of a well-maintained and safe public transit in this city. I'd love to use Marta, but I can't because each time I am harassed or I'm witness to an incident. Unless it's for a concert or sports game, using the Marta system feels very unsafe. I believe it will be more of the same with the beltline rail.

The Beltline is literally former train tracks for the most part. I used to live in Atlanta and I’ve long giving up hope of it developing into a functional city. Bordeaux is another great example of a great streetcar city.

I walking around williams street at 8 AM once the last time i was in ATL. Nothing but junkies and dudes screaming at imaginary people lol. But yeah usually if im in ATL we just go to Buckhead.

You get harassed downtown by meth heads if you go out after dark

One issue not adequately covered is the I-75/85 connector. Between the Mercedes stadium / park / aquarium on the West and the Connector on the East, the effective downtown area is relatively small. Subtract Georgia State University, the large hotels, and the government buildings and it is tiny compared to something like Chicago or Seattle downtown. Yes, as mentioned here, there are actions that can be taken but it'll never match these other downtowns. That said, Midtown and Buckhead are thriving. They'd be considered downtown-like in most US cities.

Your written words contradict. You grew up wondering why it never felt quite right. But you say it was once a vibrant city.

Look at also the big flop of Brutalism. It was created to try to add more communal spaces, but nobody wants to sit in a concrete courtyard, on a concrete bench with concrete walls on 3 sides of you. There's a lot of leftover structures/spaces that embody this architecture style inside cities, so in general they are inherently less pleasing for community living. We're just now getting around to figuring out that suburbs are also the spawn of Satan. It's a learning process, and an expensive one at that

Oliver Tree?

Just moved out of the living in the middle of Atlanta since 2016. Walking in the city seemed pretty great then but now... it's like... wth man

You're doing God's work.

You can’t park

Traffic. Hotlanta has traffic.

oliver tree switching lanes yessir

IMO United States is a very amazing place. All cities have something special. Crime is everywhere but it can be more controlled here. Out the country is a different beast. We get to see these countries under the privilege of US wealth. Outside of those resorts are nothing put poverty! I live New Orleans, Chicago, to all the small cities in between. United States is the land of opportunities. It's hard to grow at times but not impossible. I love the United States. We just need to clean it up a bit.