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Roads are bad as well and transit is bad. Atlanta should be a step up from Nashville but it has too many issues right now.
You may not be happy about MARTA's reach, but it's not a "bad" transit system. It's safe, clean, and very reliable relative to other heavy rail systems. It's not killing people or falling apart like D.C. or MTA.
Same. Everyone I know from the NYC area that moves to North Carolina, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, or LA moves because they love driving and hate taking public transit. My cousins moving to Phoenix literally say it's such a great city because it was built for cars which makes it a better place to live in the Tri State. The people in the Tri State always ask why I'd ever leave LA are always the ones who love the burbs and strip malls and driving everywhere who avoid The City at almost all costs, yet will be the first to rep it if given the chance.
Where I could see improved public transit truly benefiting the city and being accepted by local residents is Miami due to the large population from Latin America. Large Latin American cities generally have good transit (at least better than Miami), but are also denser and more walkable. Those leaving large Latin American cities would be used to walking more and/or good public transit. Nashville and Austin also have the possibility because they are typically considered magnets for millennials and hipsters, both have good urban university campuses centrally located to the core, and both are experiencing massive high-rise building booms.
While Atlanta does have MARTA already, from my own personal experiences, it does not seem to be attracting the type of people who would flock to a good public transit system.
Atlanta does have a pretty built up Downtown and Midtown urban area. I doubt people that live in Midtown Atlanta have qualms about public transit. Austin is experiencing a decrease in density overall. While Downtown is urbanizing, the rest of the metro continues to sprawl and sprawl. I don't see an effective light rail system in Austin until they build TOD's in the northern parts of the city and northern suburbs.
You may not be happy about MARTA's reach, but it's not a "bad" transit system. It's safe, clean, and very reliable relative to other heavy rail systems. It's not killing people or falling apart like D.C. or MTA.
You may not be happy about MARTA's reach, but it's not a "bad" transit system. It's safe, clean, and very reliable relative to other heavy rail systems. It's not killing people or falling apart like D.C. or MTA.
Exactly. As has been mentioned before, the City of Atlanta passed the MARTA tax referendum, which is definitely a step in the right direction. Also TODs are popping up at numerous stations across the system so that is encouraging less car travel and more transit travel due to proximity. There are plenty of negatives to lament about Atlanta traffic but we are seeing slow but sure signs that progress is coming. Things could be much worst, such as having no HRT at all lol.
Very good points. I was in Miami a few weeks back (my brothers live in West Palm Beach) and I couldn’t believe a city set up like Miami didn’t have “great†transit options. People should definitely have more options in Miami!
The Miami metro (Miami / Ft.Lauderdale / W. Palm Beach ) now has two commuter rail lines ( Tri-Rail & Brightline) in addition to Miami's heavy rail Metrorail & Metromover systems.
All three counties can benefit from East-West rail based options but buses move the majority and are stuck in a highly congested & densely populated metropolitan area.
There is also this :
Another half-penny transportation tax may be on the November ballot as Miami-Dade county scrambles to add transit.
You may not be happy about MARTA's reach, but it's not a "bad" transit system. It's safe, clean, and very reliable relative to other heavy rail systems. It's not killing people or falling apart like D.C. or MTA.
The Miami metro (Miami / Ft.Lauderdale / W. Palm Beach ) now has two commuter rail lines ( Tri-Rail & Brightline) in addition to Miami's heavy rail Metrorail & Metromover systems.
All three counties can benefit from East-West rail based options but buses move the majority and are stuck in a highly congested & densely populated metropolitan area.
There is also this :
Another half-penny transportation tax may be on the November ballot as Miami-Dade county scrambles to add transit.
As for W. Palm Beach it has its own transit agency & is 70+ miles away from Miami itself so the issue is not with Miami.
NYC is going through decreases in bus ridership because of congestion as well. But luckily the MTA/DOT is trying to turn as many buses as possible into BRT.
Cities like Miami and NYC should get rid of streets that have no cure of decreasing congestion and replace the with wall spaces and street cars.
Roads are bad as well and transit is bad. Atlanta should be a step up from Nashville but it has too many issues right now.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say the roads and transit are "bad" in Atlanta. Care to clarify? And yes, transit in Atlanta is absolutely a step up from Nashville--which only has one commuter rail line at this point.
How would you know? You hate MARTA to the point of charging into the Atlanta forum to tell visiting businesswomen it isn't safe to ride, ***especially if they're white.***
Take your ant-Atlanta agenda elsewhere.
Maybe because I'm more concerned with the well being of innocent people requesting truthful responses vs. those more concerned with shaking pom-poms and putting lipstick on a pig.
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