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Old 07-20-2019, 01:09 PM
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nsit_ridership
% using mass transit
Seattle 20.1%
Portland 12.1%
Atlanta 9.8%

And Atlanta is a much smaller portion of the total metro than Seattle and Portland. The Atlanta metro figure is about 4%.

As for access to jobs, Atlanta is 85 of 100 with 21.7% of jobs accessible within 90 minutes (combined score of access to transit and access to jobs ranks Atlanta #91 page 21-ahead of Richmond, Greenville, Birmingham, Knoxville, Riverside CA, Youngstown, August, Melbourne FL and Poughkeepsie NY). Only Dallas, with the largest light rail system in the country is ranked lower among these 16 metro areas with a half million jobs accessible. Seattle is #35 and is currently doing a major expansion while this report was in 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content...bs_transit.pdf

<from page 16 of the link>
Table 3. Metropolitan Areas with 500,000 or More Jobs Accessible in 90 Minutes via Transit
Average Jobs Reachable in Share of Share
Metropolitan Area 90 Minutes Metropolitan Jobs (%) Rank
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 3,539,294 36.6 25
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 1,544,990 25.6 69
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 1,194,812 23.9 76
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 1,148,904 36.6 24
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH 832,215 30.2 43
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 812,343 29.6 50
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 798,327 34.8 30
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 747,972 24.0 75
Denver-Aurora, CO 617,584 47.5 10
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 603,562 29.7 48
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 593,045 19.0 88
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 583,301 33.4 35
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 573,032 21.7 85
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 553,213 58.4 3
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 516,389 44.0 12
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 516,331 27.4 61
This is a bigger indictment of uncontrolled sprawl than it is of the transit system and correlates with the idea that suburban sprawl is rooted in segregation. Marta covers its jurisdiction as well as it can under the circumstances of this region.
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Old 09-25-2019, 06:10 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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The ATL has released ATL Regional Transit Plan Draft Results.
https://atltransit.ga.gov/wp-content...on-9.20.19.pdf
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Old 09-25-2019, 06:38 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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The ATL has released ATL Regional Transit Plan Draft Results.
https://atltransit.ga.gov/wp-content...on-9.20.19.pdf
So...where’s the funding?
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Old 09-25-2019, 06:56 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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So...where’s the funding?
That's where those jurisdictions, districts have to pass a referendum to fund transit. The ATL is just a planning board.
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Old 09-25-2019, 07:04 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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That's where those jurisdictions, districts have to pass a referendum to fund transit. The ATL is just a planning board.
In other words, all the ATL is is another layer of crap with no real power.
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Old 09-25-2019, 07:30 AM
 
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In other words, all the ATL is is another layer of crap with no real power.
Pretty much. Just like every other government agency. And this plan is just something that looks good on paper like every thing else we've been seeing with no fruits to come out of them.
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Old 09-25-2019, 08:54 AM
 
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MARTA Rail Norcross Extension may be back on the books:

https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt-...hWxfJoY8JHfJI/

Not sure if it really is or not but its hopeful.
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Old 09-25-2019, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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“It may be a little more aspirational than reality,” Chuck Warbington, a board member for the new state agency, said of the project list. “However, you have to start somewhere.
But I mean wasn't that 1965 though, when MARTA was created and implemented? And now it's 2019 and we're "starting"?
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Old 09-25-2019, 09:26 AM
 
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But I mean wasn't that 1965 though, when MARTA was created and implemented? And now it's 2019 and we're "starting"?
I look at it more like trying to pickup the pieces and make something functional of a political mess. MARTA themselves have tried time and time again to serve the metro but for the most part their hands are tied.

1965 - 2019... doesnt matter at this point... it's seriously needed now.
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