Why the Heck doesn't MARTA Rail go Northwest (Cobb County) (Atlanta: homes, neighborhoods)

[MathmanMathman]

Originally Posted by WanderingImport

This mentality annoys me.

Why? So we can continue to have a disjointed system?

Work with what ya got. Cobb didn't want to join MARTA so it created its own system. Deal with it.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by MathmanMathman

It's not like those lines are just waiting to be re-purposed. It's clear though that putting in rail, no matter how sensible, is too expensive.

Right, Cobb should just do a BRT that is 5 times as expensive and would get even less local funding than as the downtown streetcar...

[deacongirl]

Racism.

[JoeP]

"Why the Heck doesn't MARTA Rail go Northwest (Cobb County)"

because Cobb made sure to "stop Atlanta at the river"

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by MathmanMathman

Work with what ya got. Cobb didn't want to join MARTA so it created its own system. Deal with it.

That's mighty dismissive. Sooner or later, something needs to change.

CCT already does a pretty crappy job, so sure, let them set up their system and fail miserably. It doesn't do anything positive for the metro as a whole though.

[demonta4]

Originally Posted by sherlockjones

Forget MARTA. Cobb should put in its own system now that braves are relocating. Lots of railway lines in place already.

Pretty much sums up what Cobb Citizens want. Good luck with your crappy CCT system. Won't even take me to KSU.

[gtcorndog]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

No, gtcornydog, I'm not going to play a role in your online court jester/circus act because you're lonely, insecure and starving for attention and don't know how to engage in constructive human conversation.


gtcornydog is not a troll, she's just someone who wants to engage in constructive conversation but does not know how, so she instead acts out with goofy comments and antics to get a little bit of attention to stroke her always-insecure ego.

gtcornydog is just an attention-starved comedienne that is playing her role as comedic relief for the Atlanta forum.

When gtcornydog wants to engage in and play a constructive role in this conversation, she will, but until then, at least she's here just for laughs.

[UrbanConquistador]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

The fact that we have to have these discussions is just embarrassing for a city and region that is looking to showcase it's city to the world and look to be a world class player a few decades from now.

Sorry, Atlanta, you can't be a cosmopolitan city when you have these types of attitudes so prevalent in the metro that they essentially dominated the region. Yeah, cities like SF, D.C., and NYC will have a few people like this, but there aren't enough of them where their attitudes also controls the dynamics and politics of the region.

Seriously, Atlanta could have had a transit rail system the size of D.C.'s if it kept building out. Quite possibly a world class system. So sad to see what Atlanta could have been.

The liberals of Atlanta don't see it, but conservatives truly dominate the region and it has unfortunately hurt Atlanta big time over the past 2 decades as far as being world class.

Well said. Atlanta is however experiencing a resurgence back to it's core, so I'll stay optomistic.

[arjay57]

Cobb would likely be open to rail transit if someone can make a compelling case as to exactly how it is going to (a) save them money and time and (b) make their lives better.

We can sit here and holler that they are a bunch of racist or classist snobs, but that's just plain common sense.

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Cobb would likely be open to rail transit if someone can make a compelling case as to exactly how it is going to (a) save them money and time and (b) make their lives better.

We can sit here and holler that they are a bunch of racist or classist snobs, but that's just plain common sense.

Can't arjay with that...