Atlanta #1 Metro area for sprawl (Forest Park, Forsyth: real estate, insurance, home)

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by MattCW

Traffic on four-lane highways instead of the eight-lane highways we have. But imagine how much worse those roads would be without transit.

The same holds true for MARTA. As much as people like to rag on it, it does take half a million cars off the road each day. Can you imagine another half million cars on the road during rush hour in Atlanta? It would be chaos.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

The same holds true for MARTA. As much as people like to rag on it, it does take half a million cars off the road each day. Can you imagine another half million cars on the road during rush hour in Atlanta? It would be chaos.

Well, I'm a big MARTA booster but it doesn't take a half million cars off the road.

MARTA serves 123,000 people on an average weekday, a good many of whom don't have cars in the first place.

That's a lot of folks but it's far from half a million.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Well, I'm a big MARTA booster but it doesn't take a half million cars off the road.

MARTA serves 123,000 people on an average weekday, a good many of whom don't have cars in the first place.

That's a lot of folks but it's far from half a million.

422,400 http://www.apta.com/resources/statis...rship-APTA.pdf

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by jsvh

422,400 http://www.apta.com/resources/statis...rship-APTA.pdf

You're thinking about "ridership" numbers, which incude mutliple boardings by the same passenger.

The number of actual riders is much lower. See this note from MARTA's minutes last year:

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by arjay57

You're thinking about "ridership" numbers, which incude mutliple boardings by the same passenger.

The number of actual riders is much lower. See this note from MARTA's minutes last year:

Ah. Fair enough.

[arjay57]

123,000 per day is still a lot of people. That's roughly the amount of traffic one of our big freeways carries in one direction per day.

[Tunestl]

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[demonta4]

We'll see what you want when oil runs out. Hope you like your elbow room then.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by demonta4

We'll see what you want when oil runs out. Hope you like your elbow room then.

I'll take my little plot with its garden, well, chicken coop, solar panels and my trusty Lister.

Come on over if you get tired of living in that concrete cube and want some fresh vegetables. But be sure to call first. The dogs can get riled up.

[demonta4]

Originally Posted by arjay57

I'll take my little plot with its garden, well, chicken coop, solar panels and my trusty Lister.

Come on over if you get tired of living in that concrete cube and want some fresh vegetables. But be sure to call first. The dogs can get riled up.

Don't worry about me, I can easily get food from the Forest Park farmers market. I can hopefully take MARTA there. Wonder how you'll get to work.