MARTA transit plan includes 21 miles of light rail (Atlanta: metropolitan, build)

[MattCW]

You can always do an open records request with them. I've had success with that to get things like the Train Operator's Handbook, the official train speed limits and other bits of information.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by PKCorey

It's a public agency. They have to release the information.

They used to post the top 10-20 routes a few years ago on their website but they stopped posting them.

Goes back to transparency. They should do something like this: https://www.ridemetro.org/Pages/Ride...rt-072018.aspx

You've got weekday, Saturday and Sunday ridership by month for every single route. They've got boardings by station for each of the rail lines.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by MattCW

You can always do an open records request with them. I've had success with that to get things like the Train Operator's Handbook, the official train speed limits and other bits of information.

True, but I don't think we should have to go the trouble of sending an Open Records request.

Seems to me they would make this info readily available, especially when we are trying to evaluate which routes are most effective, which ones need beefing up or trimming back, and where new ones should be deployed.

[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by bu2

Goes back to transparency. They should do something like this: https://www.ridemetro.org/Pages/Ride...rt-072018.aspx

You've got weekday, Saturday and Sunday ridership by month for every single route. They've got boardings by station for each of the rail lines.

Yes! That is what I would like to see!

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by samiwas1

Yes! That is what I would like to see!

Exactly.

Looks like a lot of their bus routes get far more boardings than their light rail.

Makes you think about which one gives the most bang for the buck.

As I recall the More MARTA money is going well over 90% to light rail.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Exactly.

Looks like a lot of their bus routes get far more boardings than their light rail.

Makes you think about which one gives the most bang for the buck.

As I recall the More MARTA money is going well over 90% to light rail.

In a related issue to Cobb, politics stopped what has always been the expected most important rail link in Houston-Westpark (primarily one politician in DC, but there was some local opposition). So 6 of the top 9 bus routes travel in that corridor, which is the densest in the area, as much as 16,000 per sq mile (by comparison NYC is 27,000 per sq mile so this is pretty dense).

That explains why some of those bus routes have such high ridership relative to rail.

[cqholt]

Making substantial improvement to existing services. This means faster service for both bus and rail, more efficient bus routes, major investments in existing train stations, and a dramatically improved rider experience. Significant investment in our existing system is critical to helping those who depend on transit for daily life, encouraging more residents to use transit every day, and enabling further growth and development of downtown Atlanta and the center of the city.Spurring economic revival in Southwest Atlanta. modcut

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...s-transit.html

[SEAandATL]

Saw this article. Apparently Atlanta is the envy of other cities for something. Even Miami.

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/10/1...-redevelopment

[SEAandATL]

Here it is:

https://www.myajc.com/blog/commuting...YZ1FAKfbaVTiJ/

[SAAN]

Summary of this expansion: Most of us will be dead by time MARTA finally goes where it needs to go!!!