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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I would LOVE_ to see that proposed "Tucker Branch" of the east rail line. OK. I live in Tucker and the bus ride to the rail is 45 minutes...<br><br>I think the last thing we need to be spending more government subsidy money on is more roads. Add a per slot parking lot tax, raise the gas tax and take out a lane or two on on all the interstates within 4 miles of downtown. Use the extra $ to build a WORKING mass transit system that can move people around at least as fast as they move now in rush hour.<br>
<br>Rubber tires on elevated trains are quite and won't require chopping up neighbourhoods. The area under the rails become a long series of parks or if high enough no change under the rails. Who ever's backyard _will_ gripe and move and the next owner will be happy. <br>
<br>Maybe we need a gubment mandate of no vehicle sold in the US gets less than 50mpg without a bus drivers license and commercial insurance or is only available for lease.</blockquote><div><br>I definitely can't argue with you about any of these points. For selfish reasons my priorities for train service would include punching the East/West line into Cobb County (my wife's house is there, and I spend some time there while we figure out what to do with the two houses), and really doing the planned BRT along 20 east (as much as BRT is not the optimal solution this particular line will benefit those of us in East Atlanta and Grant Park greatly).<br>
<br>Even in its current damaged form MARTA is not a bad system from my intown POV. And since it has the most flexible train/bicycle policy I've ever seen in a transit system I can usually make very good time by patching the gaps by cycling rather than the bus.<br>
<br>Larry <br></div></div><br>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br>