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as an Atlantan, I want desperately for the city and the state to stop being assholes at one another and do something useful with out transit network so i don't have to sit in traffic jams of legendary nature but as a realist i know that MARTA will continue to be a vestigial transit system, as useful as one's loving appendix and just as readily discarded. the area they're moving the Braves stadium to doesn't let rail come in because they're worried it'll bring them poor people, so they just said fuckit let the baseball traffic do whatever. i'm sorry, you triggered me i'll shut up
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some time ago, Georgia's previous governor made a deal with some toll road companies. they took over part of the HOV lane north of the city, converted it into pay-per-mile poo poo. the mileage fees would change based on congestion so that on bad days you paid more, on light days and weekends it was cheap as poo poo. at first, it got zero usage. since it basically took a whole lane away from traffic, and multi-passenger cars suddenly didn't want to ride in that lane (carpools were still ok to ride free but they had to 'register' for it ahead of time and it didn't work well), traffic in the other lanes became a severe problem. this wasn't really solved until they lowered the costs so much that the fees were trivial, causing the whole system to lose money rather badly for several years. somehow this was evidence of success and they announced deals to build these toll lanes to other roads. but Atlanta being Atlanta, traffic got worse. people started using it more out of need than convenience, and the prices got jacked. didn't matter: traffic was so bad people were willing to pay. hit a record high congestion fee recently. it's also no longer convenient at all, because the toll lane is as jam packed as everything else. so much so that now they're looking at offering credits to regular toll lane uses who decide not to use it during peak hours. "the local paper posted:The state will roll out new toll lanes in Cobb, Cherokee, Henry and north Gwinnett counties, but troublesome traffic has caused the existing Gwinnett lanes to slow below federal standards at crucial times. going to all this effort to avoid trying to fix the problems with our rail system.
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