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Bayor on Atlanta Historical Transportation Problems

Ronald H. Bayor [professor in School of History, Technology, and Society] says the failure of the 1971 MARTA referendum in Gwinnett and Clayton was the beginning of the region’s transportation problems because of the lack of mass transit in the suburbs,” wrote Doug Monroe. “Yet his research goes back to the racial reckoning behind the route of the interstate highway system that began construction in the 1950s.” Source: Atlanta Magazine – August 1, 2012

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