Hartsfield-Jackson's going to become more crowded as long as Atlanta's becoming more crowded, I'm afraid, and -- assuming they don't run out of water (which, granted, seems to be an increasingly stupid assumption) -- that's not going to stop anytime soon.  Atlanta's fortunate to have a lot of unused land (its greatest asset and greatest roadblock to serious urban planning) around that section of town, so the option to continue expanding the airport is at least there, unlike in New York.

I'm not sure how much say the suburbs have on Metro, though.  Don't the Virginia DOT and the WMATA decide that?  I agree on the whole that the line to Dulles would be a plus, but the city is leaving itself wide open to the energy crisis by not building lines into the suburbs.

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