Atlanta showed off its plan to overhaul DeKalb Avenue on Wednesday night. And the people who use and live near the road had a lot of opinions about it.
More than 200 of them crowded into the stuffy room at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center. Some had to sit on the floor. Others crammed in the doorway.
To applause, the city announced it was getting rid of the reversible lane that runs down the center of DeKalb Avenue. On many sections of the road from Jackson Street to Rocky Ford Road, the lane will be replaced by center turn lanes in both directions.
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