MARTA eyeing major expansion up Georgia 400 corridor (Atlanta, Decatur: houses, public schools)

[erick295]

Originally Posted by cqholt

There is a Home Depot in Midtown and most of the stuff you listed could be bought online, its the 21st century. Do you even Amazon, bro?

That's over by Poncey-Highland. Sorry guys but I'm not going to hijack a MARTA expansion thread so we can spend five pages debating the merits of my shopping habits. I was just trying to clarify what I meant earlier. Is there anything people won't argue about on this forum?

[earthlyfather]

My thoughts exactly 295. Sort of like the disagreement over whether PCID is "sort-of-urban", or not. Think of PCID as a 14 year old boy - or pick an age that suits you. He is a man, just not very mature yet. In time, five to 10 years, maybe fifteen, he will be mature and a 'real' and mature man.

I swear some folks are stuck in its not now, so it won't ever be, mentality. ATL as a whole is still a teenage city, relative to, say NYC. Takes time to grow up.

Back to the political forum where we have 'real' fights. Ciao.

Originally Posted by erick295

That's over by Poncey-Highland. Sorry guys but I'm not going to hijack a MARTA expansion thread so we can spend five pages debating the merits of my shopping habits. I was just trying to clarify what I meant earlier. Is there anything people won't argue about on this forum?

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Ever seen anyone use it other than jogging? They need to slow traffic and that will encourage more walking.

I've seen a few people walking.

Slowing traffic and placing barriers between the street and the pedestrian, like large planters, would definitely encourage more walking.

[cqholt]

MARTA seeks public input on the red line expansion project
MARTA considers adding rail to Alpharetta, seeks public comment - Atlanta Business Chronicle
Looking to add 6 stations.

[SAAN]

MARTA needs to go ahead and just build it regardless of what the public thinks. Its wanting the public comments that has caused this 20+ yr delay on an extension as well. Im sure if the Braves wanted the public's opinions and comments, it would take 10+ years to bring the Braves to Cobb county.

[joey86]

Originally Posted by SAAN

MARTA needs to go ahead and just build it regardless of what the public thinks. Its wanting the public comments that has caused this 20+ yr delay on an extension as well. Im sure if the Braves wanted the public's opinions and comments, it would take 10+ years to bring the Braves to Cobb county.

Democracy.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by SAAN

MARTA needs to go ahead and just build it regardless of what the public thinks. Its wanting the public comments that has caused this 20+ yr delay on an extension as well. Im sure if the Braves wanted the public's opinions and comments, it would take 10+ years to bring the Braves to Cobb county.

And what if they picked your house?

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by SAAN

MARTA needs to go ahead and just build it regardless of what the public thinks. Its wanting the public comments that has caused this 20+ yr delay on an extension as well. Im sure if the Braves wanted the public's opinions and comments, it would take 10+ years to bring the Braves to Cobb county.

That's a good point that Cobb County likely would have never been able to acquire the Atlanta Braves if it had held a long commenting period before deciding on whether to make such a major financial transaction.

But it hasn't been MARTA's advance consideration of public comments anywhere near as much as it has been MARTA's severe managerial, operational and financial blight of recent years that has been the main reason that the agency has not been able to expand its Heavy Rail Transit network to the places that it is desperately-needed, like up the fast-growing and increasingly severely-congested Georgia 400 North corridor.

When transit agency is so poorly-managed almost to the point of total financial collapse as MARTA had been, it should be no surprise that it is going to have extreme difficulty attempting to expand its service area.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by SAAN

MARTA needs to go ahead and just build it regardless of what the public thinks. Its wanting the public comments that has caused this 20+ yr delay on an extension as well. Im sure if the Braves wanted the public's opinions and comments, it would take 10+ years to bring the Braves to Cobb county.

You may want to read this:

WABE notes that this is the planning and public comment process, and that it is
just part of the effort to get federal funding. Riding the rails from downtown
Atlanta to Alpharetta still could be a decade away, the station adds.

[Zanarkand A East]

Focus on DeKalb.