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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie Because the state of Georgia doesnt want to pay for something that most of it can't utilize. We live in one of the reddest states in the country, next to Alabama and Mississippi. Do you really think they would fund something like this? For Atlanta? And Cobb didn't say no to that agreement just because of the "homeless" factor, it's because they dont want to pay for something they wouldnt use. People ENJOY driving their SUVs, even if it means sitting in traffic. It's their RIGHT. Just like it's their right to live 2 hours away from the city and commute in every day. And you can't say that people will agree to it now because of gas prices. Gas prices go up, commuting stays the same. And the city of Atlanta would rather spend millions of dollars to add more lanes to the connector than to drop some money into a public transit plan. When the airport rail system was going in, city officials, honest to god, said that they would rather use the money to expand the freeways more. Freeways that are already 16 lanes wide. Ill never understand that mentality.

I dont think anyone enjoys the traffic. My parents went to a town hall meeting and people were scared of crime coming up to cobb and homeless people.

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Originally posted by iammesol When one of my friends from NYC heard our trains stop at midnight he couldn't stop laughing

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think NYC is the only city in the world that has its subway system running 24/7/365

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Originally posted by iammesol edit: according to this, Atlanta is ridiculously small

That's city proper and thats the freaking PROBLEM. No one wants to live in the city of Atlanta. Mainly because schools are shit.

This is the last census data (2000): http://www.census.gov/population/ce...hc-t3/tab03.txt

We're ranked 11th, and our growth rate is 25%. Thats huge.

Okay that's what I expected, and yeah I've heard we're one of the most growing cities in the US right now

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Originally posted by Neon Sky lots simpler than this

That's impressive... Wonder how long it took to dig and build.
Notice how Queens is almost completely left out.

I hope they add a train station to atlanta in griffin.

Check these out:

See, those make sense. They cover an area, not the center of an area like ours.

Does anyone else besides me get a lot of entertainment out of looking at these transit maps?

*raises hand*

I just like to travel, and it reminds me of those places

The Moscow Transit = the busiest metro in the world.

Thanks Bencyclopedia.

DC's Metro is very clean...but then again they also arrest little girls for eating on the metro.

WTF

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Originally posted by iammesol Thanks Bencyclopedia.

lol

marta sucks so much and i really wish it didn't right now. with gas almost $4 a gallon,living in alpharetta, and working at atlanta botanical gardens it would be nice to be able to depend on it. but HELL NO! it is untimely and undependable. so, i will suffer the 20 mile drive down and up because the atlanta public transportation fucking sucks so much.

My buddies and I used to use MARTA all the time as freshman at Emory a few years back when we couldn't have cars our first year. It got us to Buckhead and Perimeter.

And as much as there is to complain about, at least it goes to the airport. That was super convenient.

Our Metrorail down here in Miami doesn't even do that.

My roommate lives in midtown and works in Dunwoody. He takes Marta every day. He uses the bus and the rail system. There are a lot of times when things arent on schedule, but he still takes it. I think he's just learned to leave a little bit earlier.

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Originally posted by MunkyAngel marta sucks so much and i really wish it didn't right now. with gas almost $4 a gallon,living in alpharetta, and working at atlanta botanical gardens it would be nice to be able to depend on it. but HELL NO! it is untimely and undependable. so, i will suffer the 20 mile drive down and up because the atlanta public transportation fucking sucks so much.

sweet. I wish i could work there

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie My roommate lives in midtown and works in Dunwoody. He takes Marta every day. He uses the bus and the rail system. There are a lot of times when things arent on schedule, but he still takes it. I think he's just learned to leave a little bit earlier.

I was pondering working at the Apple store at Lenox instead of my bookstore job down the street, but this was the reason why I didn't. I was REALLY worried about having breakdowns hinder my getting there, especially since most of my friends from ATL having tons of horror stories. It's not that I was deathly afraid of it since I knew if I left earlier it wouldn't be a huge deal, but to have to leave 2 hours aside for transportation rather than working bothered me.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel The Moscow Transit = the busiest metro in the world.

the stations also look fucking beautiful

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Originally posted by verndogs the stations also look fucking beautiful

Yeah. People care about where they live too. You don't see garbage everywhere like in big cities here. At least I have never seen it in the pictures friends have taken when they go back there.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel The Moscow Transit = the busiest metro in the world.

Not quite... It's the 2nd busiest, just after Tokyo.

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The most-used metro systems in terms of passenger rides per year: 1. Tokyo Subway (Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway) 2.916 billion (2006) 2. Moscow Metro 2.529 billion (2007) 3. New York City Subway 1.850 billion (2006) 4. Seoul Subway 1.654 billion (2006) 5. Mexico City Metro 1.417 billion (2006) 6. Paris M�tro 1.409 billion (2006) 7. Hong Kong MTR 1.072 billion (2007/8) 8. London Underground 1.014 billion (2007) 9. Osaka Municipal Subway 877.8 million (2007) 10. S�o Paulo Metro 845 million (2007) 11. Shanghai Metro 814 million (2007) 12. Beijing Metro 765 million (2006) 13. Cairo Metro 750 million (2001) 14. Madrid Metro 690 million (2007) 15. Santiago Metro 680 million (2006/7) 16. Kiev Metro 642 million (2007) 17. Saint Petersburg Metro 602 million (2006) 18. Prague Metro 531 million (2006) 19. Singapore Mass Rapid Transit 524 million (2006) 20. Vienna U-Bahn 476.6 million (2007) 21. Buenos Aires Metro 476 million (2005) 22. Berlin U-Bahn 475 million (2006) 23. Taipei MRT 462 million (2007)

And just for the information, Prague Metro fucking rules.

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