MARTA to Gwinnett County? The people want it (Atlanta: tax, buses)

[bu2]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Keep it simple, MARTA rail and MARTA bus.

Ride our MARTA bus! Its plastered with ambulance chaser ads! Anyone seen the pink bus with the ad? They're really going overboard.

MARTA needs to limit this. They don't have the finances to get rid of it completely, but they should set limits. Houston got rid of the ads completely. They thought it would help if their vehicles didn't have such a trashy look.

[afdinatl]

Originally Posted by bu2

Ride our MARTA bus! Its plastered with ambulance chaser ads! Anyone seen the pink bus with the ad? They're really going overboard.

MARTA needs to limit this. They don't have the finances to get rid of it completely, but they should set limits. Houston got rid of the ads completely. They thought it would help if their vehicles didn't have such a trashy look.

I learned in business years ago you can't make everyone happy. Most people would be happy for Marta to get additional revenue by doing this but you cant please everyone

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bu2

Ride our MARTA bus! Its plastered with ambulance chaser ads! Anyone seen the pink bus with the ad? They're really going overboard.

MARTA needs to limit this. They don't have the finances to get rid of it completely, but they should set limits. Houston got rid of the ads completely. They thought it would help if their vehicles didn't have such a trashy look.

MARTA is purchasing new CNG buses that look great. Having ads on buses is just additional revenue and if people can't get over that, then they need to find something else to focus on. Look at CCT buses, some are very old and not even low floor.

[tikigod311]

The "lawyer" ads on buses certainly add a layer of trashiness. That stupid one with the doberman on the back is just pathetic.

[afdinatl]

It's 9:54am and the traffic map still has traffic at red and yellow on 85 south in Gwinnett

[SAAN]

Originally Posted by afdinatl

It's 9:54am and the traffic map still has traffic at red and yellow on 85 south in Gwinnett

It must be all those criminals stuck in traffic who just finished breaking into houses and trying to make a getaway on the freeway since there is no MARTA train they could have jumped on through the turn style with the big screen TV they just took to make the getaway.

This is why MARTA shouldnt come to Gwinnett, criminals will use it for getaways. lol As silly as this sounds, im sure many in Gwinnett still think this way.

[afdinatl]

Originally Posted by SAAN

It must be all those criminals stuck in traffic who just finished breaking into houses and trying to make a getaway on the freeway since there is no MARTA train they could have jumped on through the turn style with the big screen TV they just took to make the getaway.

This is why MARTA shouldnt come to Gwinnett, criminals will use it for getaways. lol As silly as this sounds, im sure many in Gwinnett still think this way.

With all those Mexican Cartels in Gwinnett Atlanta would be safer if Marta didn't go into Gwinnett

[jsvh]

Despite Support, There's a Long Road to Gwinnett for MARTA - Transit Talk - Curbed Atlanta

A new poll by the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce indicates that residents in Georgia's second most populated county are interested in joining MARTA, reports the AJC. The poll comes just a month after service began in Clayton County, marking the first growth outside of Fulton and DeKalb counties since the system's inception 43 years ago. Back in 1990, a similar poll indicated that an overwhelming majority of Gwinnettians — some 70 percent — opposed MARTA, fearing it would inject their utopian suburban livelihoods with bad elements. But a lot has changed in 25 years; Gwinnett is the most ethnically diverse county in the state, far from the bastion of pasty-whiteness it once was. Despite the evidence of MARTA support, the head of the Gwinnett County Commission, Charlotte Nash, doesn't think the issue will come to voters any time soon.

Overall, Nash may be right, for now. While the poll indicated that 63 percent of respondents would like to see MARTA service extended into the county, only 50 percent would be willing to pay the penny sales tax that'd make MARTA transit a reality. Seems like 13 percent of Gwinnett residents don't understand how the world works.

Beyond the results of the survey, a piece by Bill Torpy offers interesting revelations about how the MARTA board has operated in the past. For example, despite not participating in the system, Gwinnett County (and presumably other places) had a seat on the MARTA board. While that may seem absurd — Torpy calls it representation without taxation — that's not even the most ridiculous part. At some point, it seems, a serious proposal was floated to rename MARTA to something like "Breeze." Thankfully that didn't happen.

Given time, even those ardently opposed to MARTA service admit that the tides are changing. Tea Party leader Steve Ramey, who doesn't seem too keen on MARTA, acknowledges that drastic changes have occurred in the county in the last few decades. (He told Torpy, "I hardly go anywhere unless I have my car, and I hardly go anywhere unless I'm armed.") Ramey believes that, with a new generation of Gwinnett residents, public transit will come. If a man with a gun who's fighting for the status quo admits defeat, you know eventually MARTA will win out. But it's kind of sad to know it's such a struggle.

[afdinatl]

Originally Posted by jsvh

Despite Support, There's a Long Road to Gwinnett for MARTA - Transit Talk - Curbed Atlanta

Have another poll after a rail map has been established for Gwinnett with a completion time of 5-7 years and it will go from 63% to at least 75%.


They just can't vote on Marta in Gwinnett they specifically have to include heavy rail when they mention Marta

[bu2]

Originally Posted by tikigod311

The "lawyer" ads on buses certainly add a layer of trashiness. That stupid one with the doberman on the back is just pathetic.

And its pretty ridiculous when they "rebrand" the buses like that pink one (the bus has been painted totally pink for the ad). MARTA at least needs to make it look like a MARTA bus instead of some random bus with lawyer's ads on it.