Mark Gresham

Making Air Vibrate
...composer, writer, publisher & entrepreneur, owner of Lux Nova Press & classical music journal EarRelevant.

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@NoDMsPerfavore Before proposing a ticket where both President and VP nominees are from the same state, check out the 12th amendment to the US Constitution.

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@ATLNewsFirst When is the Sloth Crawl?

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@greg16676935420 Was he allergic?

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@wsbtv Well that's a stub of an article.

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@evanwch Activists with PhDs, delivering pizza for a living.

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@R_A_Belcher Malls are dying. They were the secular cathedrals of the 1990s, But they're going away.

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@the_transit_guy I'd much rather drive the distance than fly or take Amtrak, or even a hypothetical high speed rail. 4 hours by expressway, downtown to downtown; 7 hours by non-expressway highways.

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@otokyo "Can I borrow your credit card?"

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@ajlamesa Crime wears every mode of transportation. The problem is crime wherever it takes place. But you can't defend the presence of crime on MARTA by citing an example of a crime where MARTA is not.

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@joshuawx_ For a moment there, I thought you wrote "suburban."

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@washingtonpost This guy?

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@DBeak @TaraBull

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No reason? The nasal cycle causes nostrils to alternate dominance every 2-6 hours, allowing one side to rest, recover moisture, and avoid drying while the other handles most airflow for humidification and filtration.
Two nostrils provide redundancy against colds or blockages, enhance directional smell detection through differing airflow rates, and support processing 10,000-20,000 liters of air daily in mammals.

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@BrianRoemmele That sounds strangely like a brief scene from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" where Judge Doom reveals he bought the trolley system to dismantle it, and force people to buy cars and drive the freeway. (Part of Scene 19)

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@Sassafrass_84 That should have said "and aware." (I hate Google Voice to text.)

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@Sassafrass_84 Continue eating, maybe order more. But I would also be more cautious And where about knives in the room.

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@BrianRoemmele And do you remember who Sugar Bear's voice was intended to sound like?

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No, I said suburban metro counties should have their own public transportation systems (not municipalities). What I'm saying here is that local jurisdictions, including municipalities, should be consistent in their road signage and construction (whether for pedestrians, bicycles, automobiles, etc.) which is a very different thing from saying that Cobb, Gwinnett, and North Fulton (preferably as a reconstituted Milton County) should have and control their own public transit systems, which better serve their county than MARTA ever will. Again referencing North Fulton, especially Alpharetta; 1) MARTA has reduced its number of bus routes significantly to "core corridors" (a shift more focused on downtown Atlanta), including the elimination of multiple bus routes serving Alpharetta and Roswell, with alleged greater frequency instead that actually doesn't appear to be more frequent with some (maybe one) remaining buses with a 20 minutes cycle and the others with 40 minute cycles, with one of the eliminated buses being an express commuter bus that ran during peak commute time. 2) Will rail be built from North Springs to Alpharetta? No, because the plan is now for BRT Express bus lines, but they will not even begin service until about the year 2031 when work on the new express toll and bus lanes on state 400 are completed by DOT. Let me emphasize that year: 2031. Cobb County is doing well even with its skeletal system, because the nus service they provide is good service. If they bought into MARTA, they would get worse service and MARTA would likely never provide any service at all to the outer half of the county. And I haven't spoken about Gwinnett, which actually relates to the Buford Highway corridor in both DeKalb and Gwinnett: there are not one but two private Latino bus companies providing service along the Buford Highway corridor beginning somewhere around Sidney Marcus Boulevard and going Northeast deep into Gwinnett County and that are PREFERRED by the Spanish speaking community over MARTA. They are rather successful. Ponder that one. Consistency of construction of public streets and traffic signage for pedestrians, cyclists (including rental cycles), automobiles and other street vehicles are NOT about what jurisdiction builds and operates a public transit system. The suburban counties, particularly the northern ones, need their own County controlled transit systems that are not MARTA but instead in the best interests of their own residents and communities, and not trying to suck everything into downtown Atlanta.

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@Starlink I am connected via Starlink right now as a matter of fact.

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It isn't. That's the false assumption about MARTA, that it should continue to expand to a much wider region. And look at all of the maps proposals for expanded regional rail service: every line (except the Beltline, which is a slightly different thing) goes directly to the Five Points Station, as if that is the destination for every commuter or local rider. This is dead wrong. This 1940s "downtown centered" model for large city and it's metro area is obsolete, even though it is urbanist orthodoxy. And that goes for public transit as well. An entirely different approach from the "big octopus" is needed. If you want public transit to be truly meaningful, that is.