I live in an Atlanta suburb. My commute back from the airport (definitely a route impacted by this road collapse) this past Friday morning was almost twice as

I live in an Atlanta suburb. My commute back from the airport (definitely a route impacted by this road collapse) this past Friday morning was almost twice as long as it normally is at that time of day. Before the news of the collapse, I was planning on performing an errand in midtown on my way home - but going right through town would have been especially painful since the normal route home from there is over the collapsed roadway. People I've talked to in my neighborhood are avoiding going into or through Atlanta if at all possible. They're finding ways to make even otherwise mandatory trips "discretionary". This article is a bit like the Y2K aftermath where many claimed that the hype was overblown. While it's true that the direst of predictions didn't come to pass, harping on those predictions as though they didn't effect behavioral changes seems to be ignoring half the picture.