MARTA to make an $8 billion pitch to change the face of Atlanta (Marietta: transporting, car)

[jsvh]

MARTA > Walking >>>> Cars during an ice storm.

If you want to be stuck in your car for days at a time, good for you. But no denying MARTA is the better, more reliable transportation option in a bad situation like this. Even when there were problems, the problems are nothing like those stuck in cars for 24+ hours.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

MARTA may have experienced some service issues during the 2014 Snowmaggeddon crisis, but many people were still able to utilize MARTA Heavy Rail Transit service to get home that day in a much shorter time frame than the commuters who were stuck in their automobiles on Metro Atlanta's arterial road network.

MARTA Heavy Rail Transit service may not have been prepared to operate without interruption in a Sunbelt metro area like Atlanta that traditionally has been unaccustomed to being prepared to contend with winter weather.

...But in many major Northern cities (Chicago, Boston, New York, etc) high-capacity rail transit systems are expected to continue operating with minimal interruption during winter weather emergencies....Which is what a major metropolitan transit agency like MARTA should be designed and conditioned to do....To continue operating during a winter weather emergency with minimal service interruption during a time when the road network will most likely be impassable.

And people on the southside using vehicles got home in a much shorter time than those utilizing MARTA.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by cqholt

No one got stranded on MARTA trains overnight or had to sleep in the trains because of the ice, you are grasping for straws to make your point now. Yes MARTA did have issues, operators were stuck in traffic and others had to work OT to keep the system running overnight and prevent ice build up on the tracks. If buses had chains, the buses would be able to maneuver the ice.

B2R just has a totally failed point that all of you stick your head in the sand and refuse to acknowledge. In part of the system MARTA caused problems and caused people significantly more delays than those driving. You keep pointing out about Cobb County that isn't served by MARTA and Dunwoody which is. It worked for Dunwoody. It failed for the southside. It guarantees nothing in the case of unusual situations such as floods or snowstorms.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by bu2

B2R just has a totally failed point that all of you stick your head in the sand and refuse to acknowledge. In part of the system MARTA caused problems and caused people significantly more delays than those driving. You keep pointing out about Cobb County that isn't served by MARTA and Dunwoody which is. It worked for Dunwoody. It failed for the southside. It guarantees nothing in the case of unusual situations such as floods or snowstorms.

So a minor delay caused by a small fire on a train at 5 Points caused significantly more delays than 2' of ice on all Atlanta road?

[fieldm]

Originally Posted by MattCW

Which is bad planning on MARTA's part.

Yeah blame MARTA because the roads were jammed and the employees couldnt get to work

[primaltech]

MARTA was slow one day 2 years ago, because of a natural disaster? So what? It works just fine 99.9% of the time. Everything was heavily delayed that day. It was a snow and ice storm and a transportation disaster in general.

We need more MARTA in the region like crazy, decades overdue. And people are seriously nitpicking?

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by primaltech

MARTA was slow one day 2 years ago, because of a natural disaster? So what? It works just fine 99.9% of the time. Everything was heavily delayed that day. It was a snow and ice storm and a transportation disaster in general.

We need more MARTA in the region like crazy, decades overdue. And people are seriously nitpicking?

Did anyone see what happened to MBTA last winter?

[primaltech]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Did anyone see what happened to MBTA last winter?

Exactly, I was going to bring that up. Their chief even got fired I think.

MARTA will likely never have to worry about operating in a foot of snow. But, especially as it expands and becomes more popular and vital to the region, they should definitely have good preparation for ice storms.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by primaltech

Exactly, I was going to bring that up. Their chief even got fired I think.

MARTA will likely never have to worry about operating in a foot of snow. But, especially as it expands and becomes more popular and vital to the region, they should definitely have good preparation for ice storms.

Do you know who their chief was? Dr. Beverly Scott.

[Ant131531]

Are people seriously using isolated incidents like a random fire to make a point against expanding transit? What a joke. Let's just ignore the everyday gridlock and traffic accidents that occur on Atlanta's interstates every got damn day.