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Old 10-07-2015, 10:09 AM
 
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Despite all the moaning about Atlanta's "traffic nightmare" -- which has to be the most overused hyperventilating of the last 20 years -- it looks like we are actually doing well compared to other large cities.

The simple fact is that big cities are busy places at peak times.

http://atlresearch.tumblr.com/post/130685323028


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Old 10-07-2015, 10:20 AM
 
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The difference with those other cities? They offer decent public transportation as an alternative AND have walkable, livable downtown areas that don't require a car.
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Old 10-07-2015, 10:26 AM
 
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The difference with those other cities? They offer decent public transportation as an alternative AND have walkable, livable downtown areas that don't require a car.
Not Dallas or Houston.
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Old 10-07-2015, 10:32 AM
 
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Not Dallas or Houston.
http://www.wmata.com/rail/docs/color_map_silverline.pdf

and

https://www.dart.org/maps/gifmaps/da...g2014large.gif

They both kick MARTA's ass.
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Old 10-07-2015, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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LOL. That made me laugh so hard. Dallas? Dallas is all light rail. Took me an hour to get from the airport to Mockingbird station. A similar ride on MARTA is half the time. Downtown the train even turned into a streetcar. No more RR crossings, we sat at lights just any other car. It's no more expansive and certainly isn't as efficient. And you gave a link to DC, not Houston. Houston rail isn't expansive either and is also light rail. As for walkable downtowns, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston are all remarkably similar sun belt cities. Nothing that different between the 3.
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Old 10-07-2015, 11:38 AM
 
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The difference with those other cities? They offer decent public transportation as an alternative AND have walkable, livable downtown areas that don't require a car.
MARTA has more daily riders than Houston, Dallas and Seattle
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Old 10-07-2015, 11:40 AM
 
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DC? Yes it does kick MARTA's ass, but DART is a joke. LRT can never compare to the speed and capacity of HRT. MARTA was ahead of it's time when a sunbelt city built a subway network. Dallas, Houston, Denver, Portland, etc. are all using LRT because it's cheaper.
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Old 10-07-2015, 12:00 PM
 
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This chart says delays actually went down between 2005 and 2010.

I don't know how they measured it, but sorry....simply don't believe it.
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Old 10-07-2015, 12:35 PM
 
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Yeah, traffic is not that much worse in Atlanta. It's more that people live further away and not near transit. Traffic will be worse in a dense downtown but it doesn't really affect you that much if you are only going half a mile.
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Old 10-07-2015, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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Despite all the moaning about Atlanta's "traffic nightmare" -- which has to be the most overused hyperventilating of the last 20 years -- it looks like we are actually doing well compared to other large cities.

The simple fact is that big cities are busy places at peak times.

http://atlresearch.tumblr.com/post/130685323028

I think those delay times need to be considered in absolute, rather than relative, terms. Cities around the world need to stop accepting traffic delays as just being the way things are. Some choose to do something about them. Some choose not to.

All those "little" delays, day after day, add up. And they literally cost us.
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