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Old 11-15-2013, 11:16 AM
 
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Has anyone else read this article:

http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story...me_top_bullets

Not only does Tim Lee propose using BRT service for the Cobb stadium but State Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) says:

...let’s have it the conservative, Republican, Cobb County way and make it fare dependent. In other words, if you get on, whether it’s a BRT or some type of people train or whatever you actually pay what it’s worth, it’s not some $2 dollar government subsidized concept.....

If the cost of the trip is $10 or $15, that’s what people who ride it pay....

That way employees can utilize it, people who want to see traffic come down can utilize it, all kinds of good reasons, but let’s don’t accept this 20-year-old far-left ‘public transit is the only way to move people’ paradigm,” he said. “Let’s do it differently. Let’s do it right. I’d love to connect the three Braves’ stadiums, some way, wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe Rome to Cobb to Gwinnett....

I guess if you’re a part of a failed public-transit experiment it’s kind of nice to have company....

I don’t think the Cobb County taxpayers want to be any part of that and I think they made that clear in the TSPLOST vote.”

WOW is all I can say and people actually vote for this guy. This has to show people what Cobb is about. They don't want transit, REAL transit
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Old 11-15-2013, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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They are setting this thing up for failure. They are going to piggyback on the 75/575 HOT lanes, with minimal investment and then when it fails point to it saying 'that their constituents don't want transit because it failed.'
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In other words, if you get on, whether it’s a BRT or some type of people train or whatever you actually pay what it’s worth, it’s not some $2 dollar government subsidized concept.....
If that's the case, then stop subsidizing roads and oil companies. Make people pay the REAL costs!
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Old 11-15-2013, 12:10 PM
 
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Un-subsidized rail is the way to go! But it will fail if it has to compete with free roads.
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Old 11-15-2013, 01:19 PM
 
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WOW is all I can say and people actually vote for this guy.
Earl Ehrhart is actually one of the better guys to work with on the issue of the need for high-capacity rail transit in the I-75/I-575 NW (and US 78-278) corridor(s) through Cobb County because he (unlike many political leaders in the traditionally staunchly anti-rail transit county) actually acknowledges the pressing need for rail transit in a county with increasingly severe traffic congestion issues and no real way to further expand the road network.

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This has to show people what Cobb is about.
With Cobb County's reputation of being one of the most staunchly-conservative communities in the entire nation, it is well-known that Cobb County has traditionally had an extreme aversion to even the mere idea of transit implementation in the county.

With even many politicians from traditionally staunchly anti-transit areas starting to acknowledge the severely-pressing need for some type of transit upgrades in a county with an increasingly-severe traffic congestion problem, Cobb County has actually come a long way from just a few years ago when the county wanted absolutely nothing to do with transit of any kind.

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They (Cobb County) don't want transit, REAL transit
With a Cobb County population (a population that is already over the 700,000 mark) that continues to grow at a very-high rate and with extreme peak-hour traffic congestion issues continuing to mount on a built-out road network that effectively cannot be expanded any further, most Cobb County residents actually want and NEED real transit, Cobb County voters just don't want to be stuck paying sales tax revenues to a struggling and historically poorly-managed and poorly-performing MARTA for many years while getting nothing in return.

It should also be noted that Cobb County Commission Chairman Tim Lee's continuing fascination with BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) is part of a back-door way by the Cumberland/Galleria and Cobb Chamber-led business community to get (or sneak) light rail transit into the historically rail transit-averse county over the objections of the shrinking number of anti-transit ultraconservatives who continue to dominate Cobb County's political scene.

Being inspired by the recent implementation of light rail transit along South Boulevard on the southside of Charlotte, the Cobb County business community, led by the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and Cumberland/Galleria real estate interests have this continuing fascination (obsession) with turning the US 41 Cobb Parkway corridor into a European-style urban boulevard by running a light rail line down the middle of the roadway and sparking high-density development along the busy arterial road.

The Cobb Chamber and Cumberland/Galleria business and real estate interests also badly want to urbanize the Cumberland Mall area and turn it into something that resembles (or exceeds) the continued development of the Perimeter Mall/Dunwoody area into an edge city/satellite downtown with lots of mixed-use high-rise development around and near high-capacity rail transit stations.

...Which is what Cobb County's landing of the Braves is a major part of...to urbanize area and CREATE a demand for at-least a couple of passenger rail transit connections (one paralleling I-75 NW, and one paralleling the I-285 Top End Perimeter) in the not-too-distant future.

Cobb County real estate interests badly want to get passenger rail transit into the county by way of the Cumberland Mall area are even willing to go so far as to make traffic much worse in the area so that they can push the region and the state into having no choice but to act on building the two high-capacity transit lines into the Cumberland Mall area that Cobb County business and real estate interests so intensely desire.
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Old 11-15-2013, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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The Cobb Chamber and Cumberland/Galleria business and real estate interests also badly want to urbanize the Cumberland Mall area and turn it into something that resembles (or exceeds) the continued development of the Perimeter Mall/Dunwoody area into an edge city/satellite downtown with lots of mixed-use high-rise development around and near high-capacity rail transit stations.
Lack of rail-based transit is why Cumberland lags behind other business districts with transit in rent, occupancy, etc.
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Cobb County real estate interests badly want to get passenger rail transit into the county by way of the Cumberland Mall area are even willing to go so far as to make traffic much worse in the area so that they can push the region and the state into having no choice but to act on building the two high-capacity transit lines into the Cumberland Mall area that Cobb County business and real estate interests so intensely desire.
I hope your right.
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Old 11-15-2013, 02:36 PM
 
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How did rail become a left vs right thing. smh
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Old 11-15-2013, 03:27 PM
 
Location: Atlanta - Midtown
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Cobb County is like the weird uncle at thanksgiving, that everyone is embarresed of.
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Old 11-15-2013, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Decatur, GA
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Un-subsidized rail is the way to go! But it will fail if it has to compete with free roads.
Fortunately that attitude isn't very widespread, otherwise we wouldn't have any transit or any roads period.
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Old 11-15-2013, 08:13 PM
 
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Has anyone else read this article:

The Marietta Daily Journal - Chairman rails against statement by Atlanta mayor that light rail will make move with Braves

Not only does Tim Lee propose using BRT service for the Cobb stadium but State Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) says:

...let’s have it the conservative, Republican, Cobb County way and make it fare dependent. In other words, if you get on, whether it’s a BRT or some type of people train or whatever you actually pay what it’s worth, it’s not some $2 dollar government subsidized concept.....

If the cost of the trip is $10 or $15, that’s what people who ride it pay....

That way employees can utilize it, people who want to see traffic come down can utilize it, all kinds of good reasons, but let’s don’t accept this 20-year-old far-left ‘public transit is the only way to move people’ paradigm,” he said. “Let’s do it differently. Let’s do it right. I’d love to connect the three Braves’ stadiums, some way, wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe Rome to Cobb to Gwinnett....

I guess if you’re a part of a failed public-transit experiment it’s kind of nice to have company....

I don’t think the Cobb County taxpayers want to be any part of that and I think they made that clear in the TSPLOST vote.”

WOW is all I can say and people actually vote for this guy. This has to show people what Cobb is about. They don't want transit, REAL transit
OK let's play the conservative game the other way: Stop all government subsidies of the Cobb Airport and the improvement plans for I-75 and 675. Or any other transportation in Cobb. The people pay $5 for a round trip which is enough.
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Old 11-15-2013, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Marietta, GA
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If that's the case, then stop subsidizing roads and oil companies. Make people pay the REAL costs!
For the 99999999th time... roads are used by everyone, including transit. Roads are common and necessary infrastructure. They are an essential and primary responsibility of gov't. Without roads... no commerce; no police response; no ambulance and fire response, and on and on.

As for the comments about potential transit in Cobb, it's EXACTLT what I've said for years. The problem in my mind has NEVER been transit per se, but rather transit that doesn't serve a real need, that's heavily subsidized by taxpayers. If you build transit that is needed, with good ridership, then you can charge a reasonable fare that covers operating costs.
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