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Old 11-19-2012, 02:15 PM
 
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I know recently CCT decided to allow buses to have ads on them. I haven't seen any as of yet but I did find a picture of a GCT bus with an ad! Didn't even know that they were allowed on their buses.

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Old 11-19-2012, 04:01 PM
 
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I wish there was some better way of getting those CCT buses in and out of town. It seems like I'm always getting stuck behind one of those behemoths.
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Old 11-20-2012, 11:26 AM
 
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I wish there was some better way of getting those CCT buses in and out of town. It seems like I'm always getting stuck behind one of those behemoths.
Only by expanding the current MARTA heavy rail. It's a shame DC and ATL are set up similar but DC's rail is double ATL's and still expanding currently. All because the 'burbs are willing to accept transit and understand its importance. I guess atleast you'll have an advertisement to read now while behind them.
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Old 11-20-2012, 11:35 AM
 
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Only by expanding the current MARTA heavy rail.
If that's what Cobb wants they should get cracking since it takes many years to build something like that. According to Cobb County's research, a large majority of the residents would support a train.

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Old 11-20-2012, 11:38 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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According to Cobb County's research, a large majority of the residents would support a train.
But they want nothing to do with MARTA? They want a train, but only if they don't have to pay the 1% sales tax.
Sounds like a bunch of free-loaders to me!
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Old 11-20-2012, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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But they want nothing to do with MARTA? They want a train, but only if they don't have to pay the 1% sales tax.
Sounds like a bunch of free-loaders to me!
Stirring up the pot again? I personally have no issues with a sales tax for a train.

The problem with the former TSPLOST (which I assume you are referring to in your snide comment above) is that it was going to build all sort of irrelevant crap like a new control tower at Dobbins ... and no train at all.

Cobb County residents pass 1% SPLOST and TSPLOST packages on a regular basis. The proposed projects simply have to make sense. Propose something constructive and present it to the residents, and I suspect you'll get a positive result.

Insults, nonsense combinations of random project work, and refusals to even solicit the opinion of Cobb County residents for 40 years about MARTA expansion are far less successful methodologies, and will probably result in no progress. Again, that makes sense.
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Old 11-20-2012, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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Stirring up the pot again? I personally have no issues with a sales tax for a train.

The problem with the former TSPLOST (which I assume you are referring to in your snide comment above) is that it was going to build all sort of irrelevant crap like a new control tower at Dobbins ... and no train at all.

Cobb County residents pass 1% SPLOST and TSPLOST packages on a regular basis. The proposed projects simply have to make sense. Propose something constructive and present it to the residents, and I suspect you'll get a positive result.

Insults, nonsense combinations of random project work, and refusals to even solicit the opinion of Cobb County residents for 40 years about MARTA expansion are far less successful methodologies, and will probably result in no progress. Again, that makes sense.
TSPLOST was horribly put together, but it was better than what we have now, which is a dictatorship of metro Atlanta transportation run by a guy who has no idea what Atlanta needs, Gov. Deal! Deal has never ridden MARTA in his life, how is he suppose to know the good it provides to the people of Fulton and DeKalb Counties?
Enough of getting off the subject. Maybe the increased revenue from advertising can go towards building a LRT line?
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Old 11-20-2012, 12:39 PM
 
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But they want nothing to do with MARTA? They want a train, but only if they don't have to pay the 1% sales tax.
How do we know that?
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Old 11-20-2012, 12:50 PM
 
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How do we know that?
If they were serious, a non-binding vote for the MARTA sales tax would have been brought up to the citizens to test the voters willingness to join MARTA. Similar to what Clayton County has done.
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Old 11-20-2012, 01:12 PM
 
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If they were serious, a non-binding vote for the MARTA sales tax would have been brought up to the citizens to test the voters willingness to join MARTA. Similar to what Clayton County has done.
Well, in fairness to the pro-transit majority in Cobb, it's not all that easy to get a referendum on the ballot.

Moreover, they may like the idea of a train but not want MARTA.
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