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Old 01-20-2017, 06:56 AM
 
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Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves is back from a trip to the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, energized to push for an expansion of MARTA rail.

Eaves was part of a delegation that included nine Fulton mayors, three county commissioners and members of the county’s legislative delegation. During a two-day trip late last week, the group traveled on a light-rail line linking Dallas and Plano.

“We learned that transit and the suburbs can be our friends in terms of development,” Eaves said Thursday during his annual State of Fulton County address at the Georgia World Congress Center..."

Full Story: Texas trip has Fulton leader excited for transit - Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Old 01-20-2017, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Georgia
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I don't believe that you have to take a two day trip to find the benefits of transit when you can easily ride MARTA in your own city.
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Old 01-20-2017, 11:46 PM
 
Location: Atlanta's Castleberry Hill
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How many more cities do they need to see. Also Texas definitely has state funding for transit.
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Old 01-21-2017, 12:41 AM
 
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I wish some of the Gwinnett commissioners hitched a ride on that trip....But I guess they were too busy calling John Lewis racist to bother.
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Old 01-21-2017, 12:53 AM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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Is there a reason this isn't part of the 'Fulton 2017 MARTA Vote' thread?
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Old 01-21-2017, 05:54 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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What a dumbass idiot
Seriously.
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Old 01-21-2017, 06:44 AM
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I don't believe that you have to take a two day trip to find the benefits of transit when you can easily ride MARTA in your own city.
My thought exactly. Who paid for this little junket? Let's get on a plane for Dallas, take a choo-choo ride and then have dinner and a spa treatment at the Mansion at Turtle Creek. Here' the bill, taxpayers.
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Old 01-21-2017, 06:52 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Could have just watched and studied it for free on YouTube. There's all kinds of stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...art+light+rail

Anyway, if you didn't understand rail transit was a benefit until just now, after seeing a light rail (especially when we have a greater quality heavy rail line right here), well, you're an idiot. Good luck Fulton County.

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.
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Old 01-21-2017, 07:36 AM
 
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Seriously.
If you think that after 20+ years of driving in bad traffic on 400 to finally decide that its time to do something is not dumb then I dont know what is
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Old 01-21-2017, 08:47 AM
 
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It looks to me like these light rail things go as fast as anybody needs to go in an urban environment.
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