1. The traffic issues that knotted up Atlanta a couple of weeks ago and led to pictures of cars abandoned en masse on the interstates are not unique to Metro Atlanta. This week saw similar scenes play out in Raleigh, where the Mayor is unaffiliated with any political party, and Charlotte, whose Mayor, like Atlanta’s, is a Democrat; North Carolina has a Republican Governor. Once we are through with the current mess, I suspect a lot of thought and planning will go into how government can prevent the kind of mass exodus that produced our traffic pile-ups. I suspect that some of the analysis will focus on the decision-making process at local school systems, as their decentralized decision-making might be able to be fine-tuned, or at least better-coordinated, and it is partly the release of students that is blamed for the mass exodus of workers from in-town job sites to their homes in the suburbs.
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