There is no VALET in subway!
Why is there now valet parking at Lindbergh Station? Upon arrival today at the Center Garage, there was a sign for the lower levels saying ‘Valet Only’.
According to the website, the lower levels are being reserved for retail parking only. Here’s my question. WHAT RETAIL? The shops have been ready for occupancy for years but no one has gone in! Are there clothiers? No! Starbucks? No! Restaurants? No! Well, okay, there is Longhorn Steakhouse, but it was built as a separate building!
Longhorn, however, may be the crux. They may have demanded parking and were willing to pay to have that portion of the garage cut off. I hope MARTA is going to generate a ton of revenue because they are already making people mad. Even now, there is not enough parking at Lindbergh. They need to open up the top floors of the decks and let everyone who can use that space.
Yes, MARTA needs the money, but they need loyal ridership more.
July 14th, 2005 at 10:44 am
I would like to know WHY no retail shops have moved into Lindbergh Center. Seems like a great location.
July 14th, 2005 at 5:01 pm
I’ve driven past that new Longhorn about five or six times now. It still strikes me as terribly out of place, like someone hiccuped while playing a really massive game of SimCity and dropped a restaurant there instead of in Smyrna.
July 14th, 2005 at 5:56 pm
Oh yes, I love the signs that say MARTA parking -4th floor, and so you (being someone who normally parks at Avondale) drive around and around and when you get to where you would turn to get to the fourth floor? There’s a chain link fence. Brilliant!
July 14th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
I guess that explains why the Garson deck has been filling a little faster lately.
Not that I’m complaining about having fewer parking spaces available. I just wish I didn’t have to drive to take MARTA in the first place.
Someday, that bicycle will be mine, and my car will be a cute accessory.
July 15th, 2005 at 12:08 am
That Longhorn moved from its original space on Peachtree next to the Benihana’s - and they had valet there too.
As for the decks, the biggest pain in my ass was when they were installed those completely useless turnstile things in the Garson deck and you had to park in the Center City Deck.. but to get there, you’d have to drive past the decks, turn left on Piedmont and WAIT for the turn signal to get onto Lindbergh. That was an extra 2 minutes of my day that I’ll never get back.
July 22nd, 2005 at 11:22 am
Lindbergh Marta station defines what MARTA is all about. Maximum flash, minimal applicability. I agree with you, Robert, Marta should be more concerned with actually having people ride than generating lots of revenue. I would love for Marta to be actually useful, more so than when I want to go see Weezer at the Underground, and when I want to get to the airport. I live in East Atlanta, and there really is no reason to even think about Marta, other than for the aforementioned reasons.