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CITY OF .ATLANT.A June 20, 1969 CITY HALL A TLANTA, GA. 30303 Tel. 522 -4463 Area Cod e 404 IVAN ALLEN, JR ., MAYOR R. EARL LANDERS, Adm in istr ative Ass ist ant MRS. ANN M. MOSES, Exec uti ve Secret ary DAN E. SWEAT, JR ., Direct or of Governmental Lia i son Mr. John A. Volpe Secrefe'iy of Transportation Washington, D. C. Mr. C. C. Villarreal, Administrator Department of Transportation Urban Mass Transportation Administration Washington, D. C. 20590 Gentlemen: Atlanta's Central Area has and will continue to experience a growth rate that only a handful of cities in the world have ever experienced. Employment, travel and other Central City activities wi 11 double between 1961 and 1983. Obviously, this growth will impose many transportation and development problems. Over the years, the cooperative efforts of public agencies and private g roups , working toward mutually agreed-upon goals, have resulted in the development of Atlanta as the Southeast's pre mier metropolis . Although we ta ke pride in our genera tion 's accomplishme nts, we ca nnot afford to rest on our lau rels . We must instea d redouble ou r efforts in the future to a ssure tha t the dynamic g rowth which lies immedi a tely a head will be relevantly pl a nned a nd developed for the ci tizens of tomo rrow. The At lan ta Are a Tra ns porta tion Policy Commi tte e th rough its respective staffs and consultants has worke d close ly with the Urba n Mass Tran sit Administrati on staff and its consul tan ts in the de ve lopme nt of a se ri es of logi cal decisions on procedures to be fo ll owed re lative to a transportati on program for tec hnica l study. The transportation program fo r technical study is characterized by: �Messrs. Volpe and Villarreal - 2 - June 20, 1969 1. The continuation of the Atlanta Area Transportation Study (AA TS) Plan, approved in principle and adopted as a guide to be fol lowed by the Atlanta Area Transportation Study Pol icy Committee · and the City of A ti ant a. 2. Synchronization of t~e Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority's (MARTA) proposed application for technical studies with i tern 1 above. 3. Synchronization of the Central Area Study, a sub-area transportation study for the Central Area of Atlanta with item 1 above. This is a unique team effort _between the City of A_tlanta and Atlanta's business communit • As mentioned earlier, the Atlanta Area Transportation Stl!dy has been adopted as a guide to be fol Iowed for further transportation studies. This action provides an important step in Atlanta's history and link with the Central City Transportation project. Though we have talked in the past in theory and fact about our urban transportation problems and solutions, we have never had the resources or opportunity to follow through with them. The Central City Transportation project would afford us an opportunity and the necessary resources to test transportation approaches and solutions, such as our "busways proposal", and furthe r to detail im rovements to ou r transportation net~ ork: The CCT team of consultants headed by Arthur D. Little; Skidmore , Owens and Merrill; Wilbur Smith and Associates; and the Real Estate Research Corporati on has worked very we ll with our local public and private agencies in the development of Phase I of this unde rtaking. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your staff for al lowing the City of Atlanta to participate a long with the above consultants in Phase I of the Central City Transportation project. It has proven to be most meaningful to us. The Department of Transportation is also to be commended for its keen awareness and willingness to tackle the transportation problems of urban cities. The CCT project can be most helpful to the City of Atlanta in the development �Messrs. Volpe and Villarreal June 20, 1969 - 3 - of local transportation and related programs. In addition, the experience gained here can be of great help to you and you r departrre nt in developing subsequent transportation policies which will lead toward meeting our national transportation goals. -We,=s-rr-roere~y:-hope na , :A.-t la n fa:a: wi ll e perl'l'H·tte - to:-exp lcrre · t tli~ t ' G Gi

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Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr . Mr. William Mayna rd , Chai rman AATS Policy Committee IA , jr:WM/bl s �