Posted on 01/16/2022 10:34:22 AM PST by BusterDog
ATLANTA — Jeffrey Parker, who led the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority during a time of expansion and then during the pandemic when public transportation ridership plummeted, has died, the agency announced.
A spokesperson for the agency, Stephany Fisher, said that Parker killed himself when he was struck by a train in the East Lake Station in DeKalb County at about 10:30 p.m. Friday.
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Atlanta Karenina
He became one with the train.
Did he step or was he pushed?
Something tells me we are about to find millions missing from MARTA.
Maybe Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta (MARTA) didn’t turn out the way he expected.
Much easier and less painful ways to go, if you’ve decided to check out.
Sad, he went out by the thing he loved most. I wonder why he did it.
Bkmrk.
“Weird stuff going on these days.”
*****
Not every kernel in the bag pops at the same time.
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
Maybe that was due to a state of depression from job pressures, but going out that way also looks as though he thought he was ‘cornered’ and to jump was his only way out.
My sympathies for his family and for all those transit employees who will be tasked for mopping it all up.
Not much discussion about those unnamed workers and how they deal with their own ‘job pressures’.
So, his last act was to have someone using the train have a bad experience and regret using it?
My sympathies are with his family, and as mentioned above, with the workers who have to deal with the aftermath.
There is something very odd about this.
Ballots moved by train?
Or we were gonna find out about ballots.
MARTA has rail.
MARTA is also corrupt and filled with nepotism.
I helped kick off the effort to defeat a 1% sales tax on all purchases in Gwinnett County, GA.
He jumped a sinking ship and quit his job early.
My friend clued me in to that acronym back in the ‘80s.
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