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After Los Angeles, Atlanta may be America’s most car-dependent city. Atlantans sentimentally give their cars names, compare speeding tickets and jealously guard any sidestreet where it is possible to park. The city’s roads are so well worn that the first act of the new mayor, Shirley Franklin, was to start repairing potholes. In 1998, 13 metro counties lost federal highway funds because their air-pollution levels violated the Clean Air Act. The American Highway Users Alliance ranked three Atlanta interchanges among the 18 worst bottlenecks in the country.
Other cities in the same fix have reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public-transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlanta’s metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it hard to work together. Railways now serve the city cent
A. the enforcement of traffic regulations.
B. the challenge to Governor Barnes's arrogance.
C. the increase of commuter and car taxes.
D. the improvement of its public-transport systems.

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After Los Angeles, Atlanta may be America’s most car-dependent city. Atlantans sentimentally give their cars names, compare speeding tickets and jealously guard any sidestreet where it is possible to park. The city’s roads are so well worn that the first act of the new mayor, Shirley Franklin, was to start repairing potholes. In 1998, 13 metro counties lost federal highway funds because their air-pollution levels violated the Clean Air Act. The American Highway Users Alliance ranked three Atlanta interchanges among the 18 worst bottlenecks in the country.
Other cities in the same fix have reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public-transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlanta’s metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it hard to work together. Railways now serve the city cent
A. the enforcement of traffic regulations.
B. the challenge to Governor Barnes's arrogance.
C. the increase of commuter and car taxes.
D. the improvement of its public-transport systems.

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After Los Angeles, Atlanta may be America’s most car-dependent city. Atlantans sentimentally give their cars names, compare speeding tickets and jealously guard any sidestreet where it is possible to park. The city’s roads are so well worn that the first act of the new mayor, Shirley Franklin, was to start repairing potholes. In 1998, 13 metro counties lost federal highway funds because their air-pollution levels violated the Clean Air Act. The American Highway Users Alliance ranked three Atlanta interchanges among the 18 worst bottlenecks in the country.
Other cities in the same fix have reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlanta’s metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it hard to work together. Railways now serve the city cent
A. is in tyrannous control of the GRTA board.
B. cuts an impressive nonconformist image.
C. is bound to win the reelection coming up.
D. channels part of funds to his personal assets.