Comments on: Inman Park Stations Itself Full-up

By: Teashook

Teashook — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:56:10 +0000

Now if only the Senators and Reps with MARTA in their districts had any influence and those that didn’t have it didn’t see MARTA as a one way trip to their own political demise. . .

By: BPJ

BPJ — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:33:50 +0000

If you want MARTA expansion, and better funding for transit in general, tell your state Senator and state Representative. This is important! State legislators can be surprisingly accessible to people who live and vote in their district.

Make it clear, politely, that your support of their continuation in office depends on their support of funding for transit.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:01:49 +0000

The problem with expanding MARTA with the current funding structure is that it’s so damn expensive. MARTA is a heavy rail system that costs much more than most people realize. If the system was expanded into Cobb and Gwinnett it could then look like a real regional system like D.C’s Metro. It may not go everywhere but at least it wouldn’t look like some 70’s era train system.

There has been talk to expanding MARTA to Alpharetta and to the Perimeter on the E/W line but without better funding, I don’t see this happening.

Gwinnett is actually studying a MARTA expansion into their county. If this happened it’d be a watershed event, rivaling only the creation of the system itself.

By: Teashook

Teashook — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:16:41 +0000

Isn’t the logical place for train station expansion north Fulton?
Co-workers communting from there swear they’d take MARTA rather than face the traffic on 400 if they could. I was a frequent East Lake station user, plenty of parking, but why not drive a little further to Edgewood Candler if on the way home I can take the sparsely populated clean new train that stops there instead of waiting in filthy Five Points for the packed train that goes the all the way to Indian Creek? I’ll never understand why they think having a train run half the length of the East-West line does anyone any good.