. Board of Commissioners Appointees The causes of this decline were heavily debated the National Highway System and airports both funded by the government competed directly with the railroads who paid for their own infrastructure Progressive Era rate regulation limited the railroad's ability to turn a profit Railroads also faced antiquated work rules and inflexible relationships with trade unions to take one example workers continued to receive a day's pay for 100-to-150-mile (160 to 240 km) work days Streamliners covered that in two hours. 52/11 83/28 Madagascar (11) Gentrification of the city's neighborhoods is one of the more controversial and transformative forces shaping contemporary Atlanta the gentrification of Atlanta has its origins in the 1970s after many of Atlanta's neighborhoods had undergone the urban decay that affected other major American cities in the mid-20th century When neighborhood opposition successfully prevented two freeways from being built through the city's east side in 1975 the area became the starting point for Atlanta's gentrification After Atlanta was awarded the Olympic games in 1990 gentrification expanded into other parts of the city stimulated by infrastructure improvements undertaken in preparation for the games Gentrification post-2000 has been aided by the Atlanta Housing Authority's eradication of the city's public housing and more recently the construction of the Beltline! ? In addition due to large amounts of revitalization projects in the city core crime continued to fall even amidst the hard economic times of the late-2000s/early 2010s, Participating National Olympic Committees, 35/2 See also: Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. 2.3 Passenger trains 34/1 57/14 36/4 69/21 Fiji (17) Common garden plants include dogwood azalea hydrangea flowering cherry maples pin oak red-tip photinia holly juniper white pine magnolia Bradford pear forsythia liriope (mondograss) and English ivy Lawns can be either cool-season grasses like fescue and rye or warm-season like zoysia and bermudagrass which turn brown in late fall a few homeowners associations actually prohibit green grass in the winter. .
Tennis ? ? ? ? The Georgia State Panthers representing Georgia State University field varsity teams in 16 sports also including football and basketball GSU like Georgia Tech located within Atlanta proper is currently in its second stint as a member of the Sun Belt Conference it had been a charter member of the league in 1976 but left in 1981 in 2013 GSU returned to the Sun Belt from the Colonial Athletic Association the Panthers play football at Georgia State Stadium which was originally built as Olympic Stadium for the 1996 Olympics before being converted to Turner Field a baseball stadium for the Atlanta Braves. .
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