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Old 01-21-2017, 09:00 PM
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Location: St Simons Island, GA
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It read, to me, as if you were advocating for replacing the chosen Light Rail technology for Heavy Rail technology in the Clifton Corridor. If that is, in fact, what you're saying, then I was attempting to speak against that suggestion.
I figured so. Yes, if that is the scenario, then LRT is a reasonable option, as I said before.
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Old 01-21-2017, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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I figured so. Yes, if that is the scenario, then LRT is a reasonable option, as I said before.
Fair enough! My mistake for misunderstanding what you were trying to say.
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Old 01-21-2017, 10:01 PM
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Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Fair enough! My mistake for misunderstanding what you were trying to say.
Forgiven, dear.
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Old 01-23-2017, 07:02 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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That remark & it's language isn't really called for here.

As for transit, I spent several days in considerably smaller Portland recently. If not for their transit system, which has trains & trolleys that are are more extensive in route length & reach much farther out into suburban regions than does MARTA, we would have been incapacitated because of their huge snowfall that occurred just prior to my arrival there.
As a m-f commuter on our MARTA rail system, it was also eye-opening to see how much the transit system gets ridership from what appears to be a broad socio & economic swath of Portlanders.
Portland is the whitest metro in America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b41a53a2b5e2
If we look at so called 'successful LRT cities' (Portland, Seattle, Denver, SLC) we see that they also have much lower rates of African Americans than Atlanta, but not necessarily lower rates of diversity.
MARTA rail sees a large swath of SES classes that ride it. Look at the Red Line during peak hours, in both directions.
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Old 01-23-2017, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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The commuter train is faster and higher-occupancy than buses and less expensive than heavy rail like MARTA.
Fulton County sets sights on light rail to suburbs, speedier justice | NeighborNewsOnline.com | Suburban Atlanta's Local News Source | mdjonline.com
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Old 01-23-2017, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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Please don't use light rail for Connect 400. Please don't use light rail for Connect 400. Please don't use light rail for Connect 400...
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Old 01-23-2017, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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Please don't use light rail for Connect 400. Please don't use light rail for Connect 400. Please don't use light rail for Connect 400...
The LPA filed with FTA is HRT
http://www.itsmarta.com/uploadedfile...Initiative.pdf
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Old 01-23-2017, 11:29 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Any light rail in Fulton would be a mistake. Heavy rail extension of the existing line is clearly the right choice all around for N Fulton, and commuter rail would be the clear choice for the College Park to Palmetto corridor, through the town centers. And Hapeville is already slated to get a MARTA commuter rail station on the Clayton line.

The west part of the county would best be served by heavy rail extension of the Blue line, if they wanted to go that route.

The SW extreme of the county is low-density and rural.

So, I see no room in Fulton for light rail. Having a heavy rail line switch to a light rail line to continue on in the same direction, would be utterly ridiculous customer experience. Please don't do that.
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Old 01-23-2017, 12:24 PM
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Dallas has a couple of commuter rail lines and another one planned in addition to their light rail lines. When I read "commuter rail," I think of the Trinity Railway or the Denton A-train, not the light rail lines to Plano, Irving and Rowlett.
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Old 01-23-2017, 03:28 PM
 
Location: The big blue yonder...
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I just hope they don't try to build a light rail line from North Springs to Alpharetta, where you have to transfer between 2 different types of train just because these crack smokers went to Dallas once.
Don't get your hopes up buddy... IF Anything happens, it will most likely be something dumb like that...
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