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[yendi]

Great article on what frustrates me about Atlanta, and the hope for things to improve:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/horizon/0602/24out.html

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[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

see, i swear by public transit, having lived in both New York and San Francisco. i liked MARTA -- apart from the somewhat messed-up bus schedules, i could get just about anywhere i wanted to within Atlanta by MARTA. it really floors me that more people don't use it, and i really don't get the suburbs that don't have even a bus system. [i mean, really!! if this podunk part of the country -- the Allentown/Bethlehem PA area -- can support a public transit system, surely the Atlanta suburbs can!!]

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

It's not a question of affording it, if you have public transit, and I'm not making this up, they think that inner city hoodlums will come out to the suburbs and steal their televisions. They also think that poor people will move into their county if they have public transit and lower property values and increase crime again. Can you spot the subtext here? They also don't want the build up and pollution of a big city. They want to work in one, and pollute it with their own cars, but they don't want anyone else in their neighborhoods.

Some suburbs have public transit of their own, like Cobb. Some have marta, like DeKalb, and some actively refuse any public transit, like cherokee. I think that the ones that have their own transit should have a moderate toll at the border, and the ones that have transit should have a giant toll at the border.