trapped

bus tours can be excruciating, with the all-day grey-line's tour of manhattan with my mother (her idea for the first and only time she ever went to nyc) still giving me nightmares --- today's tour of the belt line wasn't particularly excruciating but it was disappointing, with a sweet tour guide whose narration was dreadfully inaccurate in its details, historical and contemporary ---

at one time or another, i've walked the belt line from i-85 on the north to boulevard on the south, so the most interesting thing was the parade of neighborhoods that we passed through, giving you a feel for the entire city, including huge parts of it that most of us barely know exist --- you can also sense what a huge benefit the belt line will be, not only to the long-neglected neighborhoods it traverses but to the entire city, if it ever gets completed

the proposed park at bellwood quarry would be half again as big as piedmont park, with the quarry pit used as a reservoir for the city --- at 250 feet deep it would hold a month's supply