Pretty much the definition of mass transit. Goes from where you aren't to where you don't want to go, and carries people with whom you wouldn't voluntarily associate.
Yep....
MARTA would be quite nice — if it wasn’t for the fact that most of the passengers look like a reunion of escaped felons..
In the past - I took MARTA from the airport to North Springs..
After reflection......I switched to a shuttle limousine.
Semper Fi
For mass transit to work, a city has to be sufficiently urbanized. That is not true in LA nor Atlanta. The trend in Atlanta has reversed and more and more and moving back into the city as even the suburbs are impossible to traverse. It takes me 45 min at times just to go from one side of Alpharetta to the other.
I don’t think that the Marta subway is all that bad. I do think that major mistakes were made in the building of lines though. I live off of windward in Alpharetta and would love for the rail line to come all the way up. I don’t have to commute to downtown for work, but I would like it for trips to the airport and to sporting events.
I want MARTA to work - not for global warming reasons but to make the city livable without 8 hours a day of gridlock.