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REMEMBER "LOCKNER REPORT" OF 1946?
This "study" sponsored by State High-
way Department and Federal Public
Roads Administration served as basis
for construction of Atlanta's Express-
way System ..... without which Atlanta
could not have moved forward.
This was a "framework for growth."
Where would we be without it?
ATLANTA GROWTH RATE UNBELIEVABLE .....
The "Lockner Study", done by some of the
most competent authorities available and
based on the best information at hand,
projected the following forecast:
"It ts estimated that the population
of the City proper will inerease
from 300,000 in 1940 to 400,000 by
1970. In the same period, the popu-
lation of the metropolitan area will
inerease 50 per cent, from 500,000
to 750,000. Traffie volwnes will
inerease even more proportionately,
it ts predicted."
PREDICTIONS PROVED GROSSLY CONSERVATIVE
And by 1970, instead of 400,000, Atlanta
will have over 500,000 people, and
By 1970 , instead of the predicted
750,000, Metro Atlanta will almost
double the estimates with a now-
predicted 1,340,000 persons.
It's no wonder our streets and express-
ways are overcrowded.
And, this overcrowding cannot be blamed
on the Highway Department --- quite to
the contrary, the Highway Department
has done a remarkably good job in view
of these incredibly high growth figures
and the severe financial limitations.
NOW, COMES ANOTHER SHOCKER-------------
Between 1961 and 1983, the employment
in Central Atlanta will climb from
71,000 to 140,000.
Put another way, the person-trips in
Central Atlanta will climb from 208,000
to 440,000.
Hence a new challenge to provide the
combination of Rapid Transit, highways,
and streets needed to keep on the move.
In the profusion of efforts directed at
the "urban crisis", it ts sometimes
diffieult to understand how they fit
together. The following puts these into
perspective:
WHAT'S GOING ON WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
ATLANTA AREA TRANSPORTATION STUDY:
A broad regional study of Metro
transportation needs -- using
computer systems to project and
evaluate on a continuing basis. A
requirement for Federal Funds. Is
now being updated through........
THE" VOORHEES STUDY"which is the
latest part of the above effort,
is paid for jointly by MARTA and
State Highway Department. WILL
help evaluate Metro transportation
plans to date, suggest alternatives,
fulfill Federal requirements for
further funding and provide info
to assist MARTA and Highway Dept.
in planning "balanced system."
WILL NOT get into the kind of
detail necessary for Central Area.
D.0.T."CONSORTIUM"--- the recently
announced program by the Department
of Transportation, naming Atlanta
along with Pittsburg, Seattle,
Dallas, and Denver, as participants
in a $1.4-million study by team of
Consultants --- Arthur D. Little,
Wilbur Smith Assoc., Real Estate
Research Corp., and Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill --- purpose to
try to determine common needs of
CENTRAL CORES, and get hardware
built to serve these distribution
needs, + helping determine what
Federal help is necessary.
CENTRAL ATLANTA TRANSPORTATION PLAN,
a team effort of CA Business Commun-
ity and City, with each putting in
money and manpower, and with State
and Federal participation; Mayor has
submitted proposal to Washington,
with request for help from Depts. of
Transportation and Housing and Urban
Development.
WILL complement programs listed
above, without duplication. Will put
Atlanta in favorable position to get
Federal-State aid. WILL help expedite -
projects. WILL help decide where
funds should be spent to do most good
quickest. WILL serve as guide for
long-range policy decisions. | WILL
serve as basis for more intelligent
solutions to people-goods-movement
problems in Central Atlanta.
Number 21
CENTRAL ATLANTA PROGRESS, inc.
‘Avril 2, 1969
2 PEACHTREE STREET, N.W., SUITE 2740
Something to think about- --
JpITYSAIDT0 DRIVE,
INDUSTRIES AWAY
ath om
i} Priority on Renewal
(Ea YORK
y CHARLES G. BENNETT
i
SB
iy Zhe city was told yesterday
hi eqrs | fevelopmen.
a 0 ars
Bolicies had discouraged indus-
ning Commission in a report
that “the trend fo anufac-
r_more_ politica ar
‘uses.
‘The more politically popular
uses, as identified, were prin-
cipally housing. On the one
hand, the institute
‘Teity has given to a ee ment
riori or new hougin ir
ticular or owe un-
e penalty of the city’s ur-
ban renewal practices, accord-
Jing to the institute, has been
‘that many of the city’s indus-
‘tries have been compelled “to-
relocate elsewhere or go out of
‘/business.” It noted that be-
‘tween 1954 and 1963 the cit
‘lost 4,764 businesses, the bul
of them from Manhattan.
Corrective Urged
Unless the city makes a
‘wiser use of its land and un-
less it revises its renewal prac-
tices to aid industry, the report
asserted, “it is estimated that
by the mid-1970's New York
City’s supply of industrially
zoned and readily developable
‘land will be exhausted.”
| AS a P p
Jcifically, it urged th
large tracts in the city—some
of them already earmarked for
industrial expansion—be devel-
‘\oped for industrial use.
‘| The seven were:
‘| gStaten Island—A 747-acre
‘tract in the Mariner’s Harbor
section. :
College Point—In Queens,|
‘Jon the east shore of Flushing)
Bay, east of La Guardia Air-
|port. It contains three tracts,
‘Ithe largest at the southern end
‘JReport Finds Housing Gets] ,
in ere.
he Urban Land_Insti of] -
Washington to e City Plan-
' |city has shrunk to 66 acres.
‘of College Point containing 591
‘lacres,
F; Fom Ney
hi
* 1969
GFerry Point Park—In the
Bronx, 100 acres at the north-
eastern side of the Bronx-
Whitestone Bridge.
Flatlands Industrial Park—
‘|A 96-acre industrial park in
Brooklyn. Industrial develop-
ment is already under way.
QThe former New York Naval
Shipyard in Brooklyn.
Port Totten—A tract of 187
acres on Little Neck Bay in
Queens. The report says the
share of this surplus govern-
-lment property available to the
GHunts Point and South
Bronx—aA section of the Bronx
fronting on the East River.
Mayor Lindsay discussed and
indorsed the ‘Urban Land Insti-
te’s report at a morning|
meeting yesterday with mem-
bers of his Economic Develop-
ment Council.
In so doing, the Mayor con-
ceded that the city was not
getting «the best possible use
out of the marginal land avail-
able in the city for industrial
development.
“We have to provide land
Bs Wi
The Urban Land report,"
he went on, “confirms my ad-
-ministration's concern for one
of the basic elements in eco-
nomic jand development and
job opportunity. We cannot tg lik
into. providing jobs|
mdus
‘orkshops
As examples of what the city
“have been doing to put marginal
land to profitable use, Mayor
Lindsay referred to the 60-acre
industrial area along Zerega
Avenue, the Bronx; the 200-
acre Hunts Point Food Center
in the Bronx and the Flatlands
Industrial Park in Brooklyn.
Mr. Lindsay referred to land
use along the waterfront, and
said benefits would follow com-
pletion of the projected new
consolidated ship passenger ter-
minal on the Hudson River.
This terminal, he predicted, will
“safeguard” the city's $16-
billion tourist industry “and
mean a larger check for
many thousands of our resi-
dents.”
This article lends support to the very
important basic question of whether the
problems of the poor can ever be solved
inside the cities -- on the most valuable
real estate in the world -- far from the
fleeing job opportunities -- re-jammed
into ghettoes, even modern ones.
Bob Bivens
REMEMBER "LOCKNER REPORT" OF 1946?
This "study" sponsored by State High-
way Department and Federal Public
Roads Administration served as basis
for construction of Atlanta's Express-
way System ..... without which Atlanta
could not have moved forward.
This was a "framework for growth."
Where would we be without it?
ATLANTA GROWTH RATE UNBELIEVABLE .....
The "Lockner Study", done by some of the
most competent authorities available and
based on the best information at hand,
projected the following forecast:
"It ts estimated that the population
of the City proper will inerease
from 300,000 in 1940 to 400,000 by
1970. In the same period, the popu-
lation of the metropolitan area will
inerease 50 per cent, from 500,000
to 750,000. Traffie volwnes will
inerease even more proportionately,
it ts predicted."
PREDICTIONS PROVED GROSSLY CONSERVATIVE
And by 1970, instead of 400,000, Atlanta
will have over 500,000 people, and
By 1970 , instead of the predicted
750,000, Metro Atlanta will almost
double the estimates with a now-
predicted 1,340,000 persons.
It's no wonder our streets and express-
ways are overcrowded.
And, this overcrowding cannot be blamed
on the Highway Department --- quite to
the contrary, the Highway Department
has done a remarkably good job in view
of these incredibly high growth figures
and the severe financial limitations.
NOW, COMES ANOTHER SHOCKER-------------
Between 1961 and 1983, the employment
in Central Atlanta will climb from
71,000 to 140,000.
Put another way, the person-trips in
Central Atlanta will climb from 208,000
to 440,000.
Hence a new challenge to provide the
combination of Rapid Transit, highways,
and streets needed to keep on the move.
In the profusion of efforts directed at
the "urban crisis", it ts sometimes
diffieult to understand how they fit
together. The following puts these into
perspective:
WHAT'S GOING ON WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
ATLANTA AREA TRANSPORTATION STUDY:
A broad regional study of Metro
transportation needs -- using
computer systems to project and
evaluate on a continuing basis. A
requirement for Federal Funds. Is
now being updated through........
THE" VOORHEES STUDY"which is the
latest part of the above effort,
is paid for jointly by MARTA and
State Highway Department. WILL
help evaluate Metro transportation
plans to date, suggest alternatives,
fulfill Federal requirements for
further funding and provide info
to assist MARTA and Highway Dept.
in planning "balanced system."
WILL NOT get into the kind of
detail necessary for Central Area.
D.0.T."CONSORTIUM"--- the recently
announced program by the Department
of Transportation, naming Atlanta
along with Pittsburg, Seattle,
Dallas, and Denver, as participants
in a $1.4-million study by team of
Consultants --- Arthur D. Little,
Wilbur Smith Assoc., Real Estate
Research Corp., and Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill --- purpose to
try to determine common needs of
CENTRAL CORES, and get hardware
built to serve these distribution
needs, + helping determine what
Federal help is necessary.
CENTRAL ATLANTA TRANSPORTATION PLAN,
a team effort of CA Business Commun-
ity and City, with each putting in
money and manpower, and with State
and Federal participation; Mayor has
submitted proposal to Washington,
with request for help from Depts. of
Transportation and Housing and Urban
Development.
WILL complement programs listed
above, without duplication. Will put
Atlanta in favorable position to get
Federal-State aid. WILL help expedite -
projects. WILL help decide where
funds should be spent to do most good
quickest. WILL serve as guide for
long-range policy decisions. | WILL
serve as basis for more intelligent
solutions to people-goods-movement
problems in Central Atlanta.
Number 21
CENTRAL ATLANTA PROGRESS, inc.
‘Avril 2, 1969
2 PEACHTREE STREET, N.W., SUITE 2740
Something to think about- --
JpITYSAIDT0 DRIVE,
INDUSTRIES AWAY
ath om
i} Priority on Renewal
(Ea YORK
y CHARLES G. BENNETT
i
SB
iy Zhe city was told yesterday
hi eqrs | fevelopmen.
a 0 ars
Bolicies had discouraged indus-
ning Commission in a report
that “the trend fo anufac-
r_more_ politica ar
‘uses.
‘The more politically popular
uses, as identified, were prin-
cipally housing. On the one
hand, the institute
‘Teity has given to a ee ment
riori or new hougin ir
ticular or owe un-
e penalty of the city’s ur-
ban renewal practices, accord-
Jing to the institute, has been
‘that many of the city’s indus-
‘tries have been compelled “to-
relocate elsewhere or go out of
‘/business.” It noted that be-
‘tween 1954 and 1963 the cit
‘lost 4,764 businesses, the bul
of them from Manhattan.
Corrective Urged
Unless the city makes a
‘wiser use of its land and un-
less it revises its renewal prac-
tices to aid industry, the report
asserted, “it is estimated that
by the mid-1970's New York
City’s supply of industrially
zoned and readily developable
‘land will be exhausted.”
| AS a P p
Jcifically, it urged th
large tracts in the city—some
of them already earmarked for
industrial expansion—be devel-
‘\oped for industrial use.
‘| The seven were:
‘| gStaten Island—A 747-acre
‘tract in the Mariner’s Harbor
section. :
College Point—In Queens,|
‘Jon the east shore of Flushing)
Bay, east of La Guardia Air-
|port. It contains three tracts,
‘Ithe largest at the southern end
‘JReport Finds Housing Gets] ,
in ere.
he Urban Land_Insti of] -
Washington to e City Plan-
' |city has shrunk to 66 acres.
‘of College Point containing 591
‘lacres,
F; Fom Ney
hi
* 1969
GFerry Point Park—In the
Bronx, 100 acres at the north-
eastern side of the Bronx-
Whitestone Bridge.
Flatlands Industrial Park—
‘|A 96-acre industrial park in
Brooklyn. Industrial develop-
ment is already under way.
QThe former New York Naval
Shipyard in Brooklyn.
Port Totten—A tract of 187
acres on Little Neck Bay in
Queens. The report says the
share of this surplus govern-
-lment property available to the
GHunts Point and South
Bronx—aA section of the Bronx
fronting on the East River.
Mayor Lindsay discussed and
indorsed the ‘Urban Land Insti-
te’s report at a morning|
meeting yesterday with mem-
bers of his Economic Develop-
ment Council.
In so doing, the Mayor con-
ceded that the city was not
getting «the best possible use
out of the marginal land avail-
able in the city for industrial
development.
“We have to provide land
Bs Wi
The Urban Land report,"
he went on, “confirms my ad-
-ministration's concern for one
of the basic elements in eco-
nomic jand development and
job opportunity. We cannot tg lik
into. providing jobs|
mdus
‘orkshops
As examples of what the city
“have been doing to put marginal
land to profitable use, Mayor
Lindsay referred to the 60-acre
industrial area along Zerega
Avenue, the Bronx; the 200-
acre Hunts Point Food Center
in the Bronx and the Flatlands
Industrial Park in Brooklyn.
Mr. Lindsay referred to land
use along the waterfront, and
said benefits would follow com-
pletion of the projected new
consolidated ship passenger ter-
minal on the Hudson River.
This terminal, he predicted, will
“safeguard” the city's $16-
billion tourist industry “and
mean a larger check for
many thousands of our resi-
dents.”
This article lends support to the very
important basic question of whether the
problems of the poor can ever be solved
inside the cities -- on the most valuable
real estate in the world -- far from the
fleeing job opportunities -- re-jammed
into ghettoes, even modern ones.
Bob Bivens
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