{"272241":{"#nid":"272241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Prof. Dobbins calls plans to reroute MLK Drive a blow to city\u0027s vision","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA planned VIP parking lot at the future Falcons stadium will require a virtual dead end of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive at the stadium, and will affect the road\u2019s ability to become the grand boulevard envisioned by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. \u201cShame on me, and shame on all of us, that in the city where Dr. Martin Luther King is from, Martin Luther King Drive looks like every other Martin Luther King Drive in the United States,\u201d Reed said at Ebenezer Baptist Church. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do something about that.\u201d\u0026nbsp;Michael Dobbins, a professor of practice at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning, echoed the mayor\u2019s sentiments.\u0026nbsp;He suggests that the solution to this traffic imbroglio is to make MLK Drive a two-way street from its beginning at Oakland Cemetery all the way through the city. Any additional cut-offs would be detrimental to the corridor. \u201cTo discontinue Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive by truncating it at Northside Drive is a blow to its symbolism and culture,\u201d Dobbins said. \u201cIt\u2019s also a blow to the vision of MLK as a grand boulevard, as a connector from east to west.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-01-29 16:44:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:56","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"middlebury","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/vip-parking-at-falcons-stadium-to-require-big-changes-in-roads-mlk-drive\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"12397","name":"Atlanta Falcons"},{"id":"5148","name":"mike dobbins"},{"id":"85221","name":"MLK Drive"},{"id":"6452","name":"public meeting"},{"id":"168989","name":"stadium. michael dobbins"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}