For roughly 60 years, the drone of airplanes near the world’s busiest airport was countered by the sounds of automobiles coming off assembly lines.
But in 2006, the factory lines at Ford Motor Co.’s plant near Hapeville went quiet. Alan Hallman, the city’s mayor since 2003, called the factory’s shuttering “an economically devastating event,” leaving jet engines as the predominate sound of Atlanta’s Southside.
Today, plane noises again have competition — this time, it’s squealing tires…