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By David Pendered Atlanta’s first transportation corridor of the future is to be established in Southwest Atlanta along Campbellton Road by the city and MARTA. Naturally, a computer and the internet of things are at the heart of the effort. MARTA has increased the frequency of buses based out of the Oakland City Station to serve Campbellton Road , a corridor with many transit-dependent riders. Credit: David Pendered Futuristic traffic signals , now slated for installation, have the capacity to coordinate competing mobility demands of vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians, according to Faye DiMassimo, general manager of the Renew Atlanta infrastructure bond program and the city’s sales-tax-funded projects. These traffic signals already are being installed along North Avenue. City officials plan to cut the ribbon Sept. 16 on this “ smart corridor ” during an event that’s to include a demonstration of autonomous vehicles. The North Avenue project , a pilot project, is just the begi...

Police are investigating what led to a shooting that killed a 32-year-old transgender woman outside an apartment complex in College Park.  The woman was shot outside South Hampton Estates on the 3100 block of Godby Road about 4:20 a.m. Monday, College Park police Maj . Lance Patterson told The Atlanta Journal -Constitution.  The woman, identified as Troy Dangerfield by the Fulton County Medical Examiner ’s Office, was sitting in her car when bullets rang out, police said. She was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds , Patterson said.  Dangerfield, affectionately known as “TeeTee,” was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital , where she died.  “At this time we have no information that points to the shooting being the result of our victim being transgender,” Patterson told The AJC.  No suspects are in custody and the investigation is ongoing.  There have been 15 transgender people killed in the United States this year,  according to the Human Rights Campaign .  In 2016, there were...

federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Photo by bearsky23/via Adobe" width="689" height="402" class="size-large wp-image-225431" /> More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Photo by bearsky23/via Adobe ATLANTA – Alduha Leon and Jared Sanders, roommates at Savannah State University , dined on hot dogs in their apartment on Thanksgiving Day of their sophomore year. They had decided to skip feasting with family in Atlanta to pick up extra hours at their airport jobs loading luggage onto planes. Payday wasn’t until Friday, though, and Leon only had $5 left on his food stamps card . During the three years they spent at Savannah State , Sanders and Leon struggled to pay their tuition, fees and living expenses. They accumulated more than $50,000 in loans between the two of them, despite working up t...

As rents climb across the U.S., more people are being driven into homelessness. In some of the country’s hottest housing markets , rent increases have a strong connection with upticks in the homeless population , according to a study released this week from real- estate website Zillow . In New York City, a 5% rent hike would lead to nearly 3,000 more people becoming homeless. In Los Angeles, the same increase in rent would leave around 2,000 people without a place to live. To produce the report, Zillow created a model that analyzed different variables, including how population growth and changes in rent affect the homelessness rate. The model also considered the accuracy of homeless counts. Zillow then passed Census population figures , homelessness counts and its own rental data through the model to determine the relationship between rental prices and homelessness in different cities. The Census population numbers also take into account people who move in or out of a city, inclu...