"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
10/15/2020 at 08:52 • Filed to: Mass Transit
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
10/15/2020 at 08:52 • Filed to: Mass Transit | 4
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I live in the north eastern metro Atlanta county of Gwinnett. The county has voted down transportation measures a number of times for mostly racist reasons. This video makes good fun of all of that, but makes its point. The notion of planting a UGA hat and growing a McMansion is perfect.
Plus Waffle House.
There is one for Cobb as well.
PatBateman
> f86sabre
10/15/2020 at 09:22 |
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I once walked into an Atlanta area Waffle House and asked for an unsweetened iced tea. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me like I just offered the waitress crack. The waitress was borderline offended that I asked for a version of tea not laced with impending diabetes.
Also, my friend in Cobb County will get a kick out of the second video.
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
10/15/2020 at 09:23 |
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A few years ago, Hampton Roads Transit proposed a commuter train between Norfolk and VA Beach in hopes of getting some of the cars off of I-264. It was opposed by people at the Beach who feared that all the black people from Norfolk would now be able to invade the oceanfront. It’s an 20 minute drive by car. The rail got built, all the way to the border between Norfolk and VA Beach , and the VB government finally decided that The People should decide whether or not it should be extended . The votes went both ways, with the usual argument about “bad elements” having access to VA Beach, and the idea was finally dropped for good.
E90M3
> f86sabre
10/15/2020 at 09:33 |
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I lived at home, Roswell, during summer 2011 and 2012 when I was attending Georgia Tech and commuted. I drove everyday to North Springs station and took MARTA in. It wasn’t my favorite, mainly because I had around a 20 minute drive there and then another 45 minute travel time into the city then I had to catch the tech trolley. Quick it was not, that said, still beat sitting in ATL traffic. That coupled with the fact my parents were not going to pay for a parking pass, it was alright.
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> PatBateman
10/15/2020 at 09:42 |
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I side with the waitress here. Why would you do such a thing? Hehehe.
It really is incredibly stupid. The infrastructure that was supposed to support commuter rail instead ended up as a reversible toll lane. Now even if they wanted to do it, I have no idea how they would fit rail going along the interstate.
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> ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 10:13 |
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Of course. I’m not surprised as that exact same attitude turned what would have been a thoroughly transformative project to bring commuter rail along all the major interstates into the suburbs into a reversible toll lane. Of course the huge investment into the bridges and other stuff still went through for a relatively small gain compared to what could have been. This could have totally changed commuting in Atlanta but nooooooo Karens are worried about black people from the city riding MARTA so they can break in and steal their cat figurine collections or whatever.
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ttyymmnn
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10/15/2020 at 10:28 |
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Call it what it is: Racism.
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> ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 10:34 |
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That is what I was calling it. Sometimes it amazes me that people can live in such an incredibly diverse area and somehow manage to create echo chambers with white people telling other white people what it means not to be racist when racist attitudes clearly still exist in those people.
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> E90M3
10/15/2020 at 10:55 |
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It would be vastly more appealing to commute to Atlanta from some of the closer suburbs if I could sit on a train most of the way instead of sitting in traffic. That reversible toll lane they built that was originally supposed to be for rail would have been a game changer.
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E90M3
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10/15/2020 at 11:29 |
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It was more that it took time on either ends, I think it took at least an hour and half to get down there, when by car it could take as little as 45 minutes. The train ride itself wasn’t bad, I read most of the time.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 12:22 |
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If I were uber-rich, I’d totally be tempted to take tunnel boring machines and start digging subway tunnels all over the place without telling people. One day, there’s nothing there. The next day, there’s a functioning subway stop. Just to mess with people like that.
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> E90M3
10/15/2020 at 13:14 |
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Yeah I can see that. Actually getting to and from the station over long distances can add up but it beats sitting in traffic in many cases.
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ttyymmnn
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
10/15/2020 at 13:34 |
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T hat would be awesome.