MARTA eyeing major expansion up Georgia 400 corridor (Atlanta, Alpharetta: restaurant, fencing)

[bu2]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

i think metro atlanta has gotten past the point where a gain for one part of the metro area is a loss for another part. there are just too many people at this point for a gain in one area to seriously affect another area negatively. i guess my point is that intown will continue to grow at this point whether the north metro does or not.

on the same token, it sure is annoying when cobb county shoves it in all of our faces whenever they get a new employer and act like it's the detriment to the rest of us that 'alliance condoms and elastic, LLC' chose cobb county for their corporate headquarters.

as for growth in cherokee and forsyth; that's why there is development there. you don't think all of those people are commuting to downtown, do you? the job center in alpharetta is driving development there.

There should be nodes of dense employment so you can serve it with transit. You cannot go everywhere with transit. There will continue to be development of employment further and further out. The center will continue to have less and less a % of the area's employment. Putting a rail stop in north Alpharetta encourages that. It will do it enough on its own.

Use park n rides for the areas further out. That will service less dense areas and not provide a magnet for high density office development.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by cqholt

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Wait...that isn't listed anywhere on that particular MARTA webpage.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by joey86

They've been paying for forty years and only have a couple bus routes. Alpharetta has a CBD that is very important to the metro economy. Much more important than many areas that have had rail access for decades while contributing practically nothing to the economy.

Oh Jeez dude, don't go there.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by toll_booth

Wait...that isn't listed anywhere on that particular MARTA webpage.

That got emailed to me from MARTA.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by cqholt

That got emailed to me from MARTA.

Ah, gotcha.

[gtcorndog]

Only true fanboys get those emails.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

as for growth in cherokee and forsyth; that's why there is development there. you don't think all of those people are commuting to downtown, do you? the job center in alpharetta is driving development there.

The folks in Forsyth are commuting mainly to the employment nods along 400--John's Creek, Alpharetta, Roswell, Perimeter, and Buckhead. From Cherokee, I suspect most are commuting to Cobb and Alpharetta, although you have some traveling into the city also.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

The folks in Forsyth are commuting mainly to the employment nods along 400--John's Creek, Alpharetta, Roswell, Perimeter, and Buckhead. From Cherokee, I suspect most are commuting to Cobb and Alpharetta, although you have some traveling into the city also.

It is going to be a good day when the Sandy Springs and Dunwoody stations have a lot of their passengers getting on to go northbound.

I do wonder what will happen to the North Springs station. Will it see a significant decline in ridership numbers?

[MattCW]

Originally Posted by toll_booth

It is going to be a good day when the Sandy Springs and Dunwoody stations have a lot of their passengers getting on to go northbound.

I do wonder what will happen to the North Springs station. Will it see a significant decline in ridership numbers?

Probably it will. Hopefully MARTA will open up the land for apartments or mixed use development and it will become a well integrated neighborhood station.

[joey86]

Originally Posted by toll_booth

Oh Jeez dude, don't go there.

My statement was a factual and relevant response to a previous post.