re: Atlanta, GA: Potential Death Trap?................

The main thing is ATL has a huge METRO population that insists on living 20-30 miles out of the city, but then making sure that there is not a well-planned, useful mass transit system for the whole region.

THEN they bitch and moan any time something goes wrong and causes the bad traffic to turn into a disaster.

Can train tracks freeze- sure, but they can also be de-iced, and in addition to the army of snow/ice removal trucks each city in the north has, they also have fairly efficient mass transit.