{"id":715,"date":"2008-06-15T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/transportation-plan\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:26:30","slug":"transportation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/transportation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image is a merge of the &#8220;existing level of service&#8221; and &#8220;new connections&#8221; graphs from the transportation master plan, plus two diagonal connections that would improve <em>inter<\/em>-county transit times.<\/p>\n<p>(click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/trans-plan-existing-plus-new-connects-copy.jpg\" title=\"Transportation plan, existing level of service, planned new connections, unplanned diagonal connections needed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/trans-plan-existing-plus-new-connects-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Transportation plan, existing level of service, planned new connections, unplanned diagonal connections needed\" height=\"219\" width=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) The great majority of new connections are East-West routes <em>within<\/em> the county.<\/p>\n<p>2) North-South routes don&#8217;t change much.<\/p>\n<p>3) There are no new connections to points outside Elbert County.<\/p>\n<p>It appears fair to conclude that the plan would facilitate <em>intra<\/em>-county transportation, but not <em>inter<\/em>-county transportation with our neighbors.  Therefore;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>1) The plan is not designed to bring this portion of Elbert County into a more integrated regional transportation network and appears to violate the purpose of creating a component of a larger regional transportation plan construct.<\/p>\n<p>2) The plan does not promote economic integration between this portion of Elbert County and its&#8217; three neighboring counties.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>3) By not improving linkages to surrounding counties the plan preserves the economic isolation of Elbert County from neighboring counties.  This indicates that the &#8220;socioeconomic trend&#8221; in this section of Elbert County is to remain a bedroom community.  The plan&#8217;s intent to spend $1.5 billion dollars to build out and pave road infrastructure seems inconsistent with economic isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is a merge of the &#8220;existing level of service&#8221; and &#8220;new connections&#8221; graphs from the transportation master plan, plus two diagonal connections that would improve inter-county transit times. (click to enlarge) 1) The great majority of new connections are East-West routes within the county. 2) North-South routes don&#8217;t change much. 3) There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"category-transportation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}