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{ CITY OF ATLANTA
CITY HALL ATLANTA, GA. 30303
Tel. 522-4463 Area Code 404
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
COLLIER B. GLADIN, Director
September 26, 1967
Mc, Charles Davis, Comptroller
City of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Charles:
Re: Visit of Toronto and Montreal
Transit Systems.
In my efforts to seek involvement on the part of many of the
aldermen as it relates to rapid transit planning, I em continually
confronted with the feeling that rapid transit is seven to ten years
away and there is no need for immediate concern, While this system
has been in various stages of planning since 1962 the planning phase
will soon be over and the citizens of Atlanta will be faced with a
decision to approve or disapprove a bond issue for construction. By
Spring of 1968, most of the planning will be complete, at least the
detail alignment and station locations, By that time many of our policy
makers should have seriously evaluated the system and the impact on the
corridor through which it passes. Atlante has the most to gain or lose
through the proper planning of a total transportation system, The policy
makers of this city will shoulder a large part of the responsibility
to insure the passage of a bond issue to pay the city's share for transit
which is to be held thirteen months from now, in November 1968,
The Planning and Development Comittee has been reviewing the
progress of MARTA and their consultants. They have ridden the entire
alignment and discussed the possible impact on adjacent properties, station
locations and their accessibility, Alderman Cook has attended transit
meetings in Washington and visited the west coast system, which brings
me to the point of this request, Alderman Cook, after discussing the
Toronto and Montreal transit systems with consultants and others who have
visited these systems, has asked that I request funds for he and I to
visit both of these cities in order to have a firet hand knowledge of
their planning progrems and transit system design. Both of these cities
transit programs ere unique in design and represents some of the best
Mr. Charles Davis -2- September 26, 1967
examples in the world of the tremendous development attracted to
transit corridors and the controls that have been used to guide
this development, For these reasons, I would like to request that
funds be made available in the amount of $665.00 to visit these
two Canadain cities between the 10th of October and 15th of October,
(See attached Schedule F).
Sincerely,
Collier B. Gladin
Planning Director
CBG/ jp
cc,, Rodney Cook
Earl Landers
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