Make MARTA Better!
Don’t miss it - this is your chance to tell MARTA what you really think, and to share your ideas for how to improve mass transit in our fair city.
From this week’s Creative Loafing:
Would you like to see more comprehensive train service in Atlanta? Maybe your bus is always late? This is your chance to let MARTA know what it can do better. Beginning this week, MARTA will hold a series of meetings designed to solicit public input on the need for major investments in transit in the inner core of the Atlanta region. The first meeting will be Tues., Sept. 27. The input gathered at the meeting will be used to shape the MARTA Inner Core Alternatives Analysis, a plan that will be used as a blueprint for future public transportation improvements.The meeting will be held at North Avenue Presbyterian Church, 607 Peachtree St., from 6-8 p.m. For more info, call 404-875-0431 or visit www.itsmarta.com.
I couldn’t find much information online about the Inner Core Alternatives Analysis - but let’s just hope MARTA actually listens to what its riders (and would-be riders) have to say, and translates those concerns into real action. I feel like there is so much potential for successful transit in Atlanta that is going unrealized because of problems like poor planning, laziness, and a general lack of getting shit together. It makes me sad, because I see how this city could set such a positive example for transit in the South.
With the whole gas freak-out, and especially in the wake of Gov. Perdue closing schools as a response (a real “WTF” moment), there couldn’t be a more opportune time to let your voice be heard. What we need is real change, not band-aid solutions and political posturing.
Hope to see some of y’all at the meeting tomorrow. I’ll be there, but I might be 20 minutes late - I’m taking MARTA.
[Cross posted in a less-edited version at Being Amber Rhea.]