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To: waverider who wrote (79526)	9/6/2000 1:02:03 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Congratulations, DH. Stay vigilant. You can bet that someone is trying right not to figure out a way around your victory. We stopped an interstate through several Atlanta neighborhoods in 1978 with the help of Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young. Three years later, the DOT Commissioner proposed to JC that he could have land for his library as a "roadside park" if a part of the defeated road could built. JC approached the newly elected Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, and the battle began anew, without the help of a President or Congressman on the neighborhoods' behalf. We won again, by the way, but it was very expensive and very nasty. I lost all respect for Andrew Young in the process, as did a large portion of his past supporters. JC kept a low profile and got his "road side park" by stubbing the road and making it a surface road rather than a highway. That was the compromise, and it was quite a good one, but it wasn't the huge interstate that the DOT commissioner, Tom Mooreland, had in mind. Spaghetti junction (I-85/I-285) is named after Mr. Mooreland and he remains a highly paid consultant to those who want to build roads in their region of the state.