Sometimes the view is all you need

The state’s transportation chief says he is “not happy” with how “things have happened” that left motorists throughout Metro Atlanta stranded bu the tens of thousands. With surface streets and major thoroughfares impassable, motorists abandoned vehicles causing even more traffic problems.

A restaurant in Peachtree Center was voted the top place in metro Atlanta to eat by Yelp.

A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in downtown Douglasville early Tuesday morning, closing roads and dumping truck trailers, ajc.com reported. No one was injured in the derailment, which was reported about 1 a.m., according to reports. “I heard two real loud clacks. I turned around to look and heard two loud clacks again,” WSB-TV quoted one eyewitness as saying. “We turned around and the train was dead stopped, just that quick.” Norfolk Southern Railway, which