![]() In the city, while I don’t want to see the awesome older homes to be bulldozed for these modern monstrosities, it is important to start to think about how to add more density. ![]() As someone who took summer jobs in the city I would have loved some transport back and forth (to UGA as well would be awesome). Yet, they’ll sit in 1.5-2 hour commutes each way complaining about traffic. I grew up in the suburbs and they would always vote it down to keep the “criminals” from coming in, stealing their shit, and loading it all back on Marta to take it back to the city. This high street Atlanta kind of looks like a mini Avalon in Alpharetta but this one would actually be an easy walk to a MARTA station which sounds pretty awesome. I believe Dunwoody is another suburb where they have some big plans for mixed use development centered around their MARTA station. ![]() The area has a ton of potential with all the empty land there + what’s currently on Dresden so hope they can continue moving in the right direction. There’s already a solid 10 or so restaurants I can walk to in addition to some stores and I know they have plans to redevelop the MARTA parking lot which currently is 90% empty most days. I just moved into a townhouse a few minute walk away from the Brookhaven MARTA station. I do know some areas are working on projects though. Kind of sucks that I can’t take MARTA to popular areas like the Beltline or Ponce. In addition to expanding out in Cobb County, I feel like more lines could be added within the city. I’ve only been in the area for 2 years but I agree. Stay consistent for several years and ridership will increase then we can increase rail to help the single car heavy town. Remove homeless outside the stations and pressure wash occasionally. Tax increase in the metro counties to help pay for it. Restart the image come into the 21st century on ride payment. They need to get all these other counties and Marta under one name and rebrand. Make using the rail cool/clean/ safe appearance and maybe we don’t have to keep building extra lanes on 85/75.Īnd to the point about GA paying that is not going to happen. I have lived in other ditties that use rail a lot more extensively than we do and these phrases were never used. There is one thing that has not changed from 1996 to today…. To this day if we go in town for a concert, sporting event or a quick over night get away we take Marta. I have lived inn Atlanta for over 25 years and for the first 6 I rode Marta almost everyday from Doraville to Five Points. It's more expensive and difficult for Marta to extend out into far areas, so they don't. Developers build further out in the suburbs because it's cheaper and easier than in the dense city. Also, in the burbs, it is easier to find land in unincorporated areas where they only need to deal with county regulations, not city ones as well. When a developer only needs $5 million to build a project, they will do that out in the suburbs instead of spending $50 million to build one on a smaller site in side the city. Building a single-story strip mall with a huge parking lot is significantly cheaper than a multi-story development with a parking garage. No ocean, no big river, no great lakes, no mountains, etc.įor decades it's always been cheaper for developers to go another exit down the highway and buy a huge chunk of super cheap land. We live in the largest city in the country with no significant geographic boundaries. ![]() The previously mentioned funding issues and NIMBYism are big reasons, but one that people frequently overlook is the basic geography of Atlanta. ![]()
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