Case+of+Atlanta+Georgia+Section

ALTANTA In 1996, Atlanta Georgia, hold Olympic games. Visitors filled the hotels to full. Few traveled outside the city. People called it the "fastest growing city in history" __ Rapid Growth led to traffic jams. __ Jobs, homes, and highways were increased by Atlanta to accommodate increasing traffic. Forests were cut down to increase supplies to allow more roads, and houses, to be built for increasing population. People who bought houses and were using cars to get around and drove more miles every day than any other person in the world. If you added all the miles people in atlanta drove in one day altogether it would stretch to the sun, there were traffic jams day and night in atlanta __ Air Pollution Threatens Highway Funds __ The air in Atlanta became so polluted that people started having asthma attacks and suffered from other ailments and much worse. Atlanta's dirty air also violated the Clean Air Act. This is a federal law that sets limits on air pollution. In 1998, the federal government ordered Atlanta to meet the law's clean air standards. If it did not, Atlanta would lose its federal highway funds, which the Government give to the cities to build and improve its roads. Atlanta had to make a decision. One option is to do nothing and control growth, but this would mean giving up its federal highway funds. Another way was to continue growing but to create a regional transportation system. A third option was to limit sprawl in some areas while requiring mixed use development in others. Over time, this would decrease pollution and car travel. Atlanta __Fights Pollution with Public Transit__ In 1998 Roy Barnes was elected governor of Georgia. In his campaign, he promised to do something about the problems caused by the sprawl. He made it clear, though, that he was not an enemy of development. A Regional Transportation Authority is Born Governor Barnes wanted Georgia to continue to grow. At the same time, he believed it was important for the city to meet the clean air standards, so he focused on public transit. Under Barne's leadership, the state created the Georgia regional transportation authority. This agency had __three goals: First, reduce traffic jams. Second, reduce air pollution by cars. Third, reduce poorly planned development__. One approach is the __mixed-use development__ (build residences next to businesses). Another approach is to __encourage people to walk or bike to where they need to go, instead of using cars.__
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1. Who was elected governor of Georgia in 1998?
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2.What where the problems Georgia had?

3. What was built to accommodate increasing traffic?

4. What did Barnes not want people to think he was?