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Willie Green reincarnated? Mass transit systems (at least in the US) are giant boondoggles designed to suck money out of the taxpayers to support an entire ecosystem of bureaucrats, maintenance employees, drivers, suppliers, etc. If you ever look at the economics of the systems they are financial black holes, and except for large metro areas where the population density is 20,000/sq mile or more extremely inefficient. In Atlanta the primary purpose of MARTA is forcing you to associate with people you’d rather not be around. It’ secondary purpose is to provide mobile housing for bums. The lack of toilet facilities on the trains doesn’t bother them a bit. Urine (usually) goes into an empty bottle, and feces just left on the floor or on a seat. I commuted on the MARTA train for about two years and saw many instances of human waste. Any actual facilitation of moving people around Atlanta is strictly coincidental - good if it happens, but not the main mission.