MARTA eyeing major expansion up Georgia 400 corridor (Mableton, Douglasville: amusement park, buy)

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by gtcorndog

Only true fanboys get those emails.

No, only the Mayor of MARTA gets those emails.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by MattCW

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.

The area around the Dunwoody station is already en route to becoming precisely that, if you count the State Farm campus and other nearby developments.

Originally Posted by joey86

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

You said:

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.

Can you please clarify this comment? This could be interpreted in a number of ways, some of them not so good.

[cqholt]

The area around the Dunwoody station is already en route to becoming precisely that, if you count the State Farm campus and other nearby developments.

Fencing is now up around the 2 old restaurant buildings.

[Caleb Longstreet]

Just get your fare jumpers to pay, cut the corruption in your procurement departments (boy, would we like to do a lifestyle audit on THEM!....any takers at the IRS???).....their answer, like most governmental agencies, is to raise fares and taxes to pay for it. For part of that, I agree. However, UNLIKE most governmental agencies, let's have an outside engineering firm design, bid, and show OPEN TRANSPARENCY to the public that is going to have to pay for it. Kickbacks and all.

How about an open spreadsheet showing where every penny is coming, and going. While definitely not fool proof, at least it will make it harder for the thieves at MARTA to do their work.

Whoa! Wait! That's infringing upon their closed-door policies! Can't do that!

You'll see it someday, when all the "contributions" have been lined up. Until then? Lip service.....Releasing the reins of some of that power and actually holding decision makers accountable would be something. One can only hope the newest CEO has the temerity to do just that but, man, has HE got a lot of fiefdoms to navigate. We wish you well.

Start with that lifestyle audit. Arrest, convict, and put away the bad middle-managers you have and give the system a chance. And stop those proverbial fare jumpers. It's costing US plenty.

[magnetar]

Originally Posted by Caleb Longstreet

Just get your fare jumpers to pay, cut the corruption in your procurement departments (boy, would we like to do a lifestyle audit on THEM!....any takers at the IRS???).....their answer, like most governmental agencies, is to raise fares and taxes to pay for it.

Who is the "they" in "their answer"? MARTA isn't raising fares, *nobody* is offering to raise taxes on MARTA's behalf, and they're currently taking massive amounts of grief over their efforts to stop fare evasion.

[erick295]

Originally Posted by Caleb Longstreet

How about an open spreadsheet showing where every penny is coming, and going.* While definitely not fool proof, at least it will make it harder for the thieves at MARTA to do their work.

Whoa!* Wait!* That's infringing upon their closed-door policies!* Can't do that!

They do it every year:

MARTA > About Marta > Reports

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by erick295

They do it every year:

MARTA > About Marta > Reports

[toll_booth]

Goes the dynamite.

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by erick295

They do it every year:

MARTA > About Marta > Reports

Lol Pwned!

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by 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.

6 stations seems a lil too much.
Id like to see something west of ham e holmes