But Atlanta doesn't have the capacity for that kind of treatment, he said. Why would you buy snowplows and salt trucks and have them sit around for 1, days, waiting for the next event? One Facebook post, addressing "Yankees laughing at GA for being shut down by two inches of snow," had an answer for the salt truck issue: The gridlock slowed down the salting, said Robbie Medwed, a year-old Atlanta educator. All of the schools, at once, decided to close without any advance notice around It was basically, 'Hey, we're closed now!
Then, while they're out there, the snow gets worse, turns into slush, and then, eventually, full-on sheets of ice. And, while everyone was in gridlock, they couldn't reload the salt trucks because the gridlock was too thick to navigate back to the salt storage areas we have 30 trucks and 40 plows in ATL proper ," Medwed said.
Stranded drivers tell their stories. Yvonne Williams, who works on transportation infrastructure projects in Atlanta, said there needed to be a community-wide coalition of first responders ready to take this on. Public transit, they say, isn't as wide-ranging as it is in other cities, like New York, or overseas, such as in London. But a transportation tax proposal failed recently. Liane Levetan, a former Georgia state senator, is one of the many Atlantans who wants more rail and road modifications.
She thinks the gridlock could turn out to be a "godsend. We really are a metropolis now," she said. She pointed out that bad traffic is an "everyday situation" Atlantans endure. We're being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
If we want to be growth leaders, people have got to move around," she said. John A. Maybe more can be done to improve transportation in Atlanta, but he's not sure there could be enough money to address a problem like this one. And, he said, traffic is a good thing, a solid indicator of growth. In fact, when you weigh the positives and negatives about Atlanta's sprawl and the tightly packed populations in many cities, the region has its pluses, he said. Atlanta has a certain amount of sprawl.
It is difficult to serve that sprawl with mass transit," he said. The city ended up looking like a scene from zombie apocalypse series "The Walking Dead. Plenty of people in areas used to winter weather blamed the disaster on those who simply can't drive in snow, no matter how little. But other factors were at play. We asked a couple of experts to explain just what really happened. The answers include improper planning, driving conditions that are bad even when the weather is good, and the use of sand instead of salt.
Asked how the situation in Atlanta got so bad, Hibbett Neal, the international president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, noted "the traffic's bad anyway. The public transportation system is a mess, which discourages people from giving up driving.
On average, commuters waste 51 hours a year stuck in traffic. When Tuesday's storm hit in the early afternoon, the roads started to fill up. Larken McCord, a teacher in Atlanta, told Business Insider that most public schools did not stagger the release of their students — so they all had to be picked up at once. In general, she said, "there was not a whole lot of coordination. In the aftermath, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal said it was clearly a mistake to release government workers and students at the same time, just as private workers were making their way home.
The result was that just as conditions were getting bad, everyone was getting on the road. The region was hit by more than snow. This was surely a banner year for snowplow contractors! Greatest Snowfall in One Season United States snow records can be found by reviewing the snowfall records of over cities. For snow and ice contractors, the winter is typically judged by how much money made it into the bank.
For municipal workers, overtime. Extreme winter weather can leave communities without utilities or other services for long periods of time. Keep jumper cables, sand, a flashlight, warm clothes, blankets, bottled water, and non-perishable snacks in the car.
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