GA: MARTA stinks. It's mismanaged & homeless people camp out on it.
MARTA: how about some state funding for operations, to improve staffing?
GA: no
MARTA: funds for homeless services?
GA: no
MARTA: well, can you ride buses so we have more revenue?
GA: Heck no. MARTA stinks.
ATLANTA: Turn Out for Beltline Rail! 🚊📢
On Monday, City Council will vote to affirm support for all 22 miles of light rail on the Beltline & request that the Mayor’s Office work with MARTA & the Beltline to generate an implementation plan by the end of January 2027.
Atlanta City Council will vote Monday on a plan supporting light rail around the full 22-mile BeltLine.
If approved, city leaders, MARTA and the BeltLine would have until January to lay out how it could be funded and built.
Thinking about the Beltline Transit Study meeting tonight...
Powerful voices want the green-gentrification effects of the Beltline to remain untouched by transit, so that the property-value boost they’ve benefitted from isn't disturbed.
I want rail.
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Atlanta really a crazy central location.
4 hours from Nashville.
4 hours from Charlotte.
4 hours from Huntsville.
4 hours from Savannah.
4 hours from the border of Florida.
Atlanta 1 of those cities that needs to push for a high speed rail line instead of data centers.
Cities with the most Flock cameras:
1. Atlanta
2. Los Angeles
3. Dallas/Fort Worth
2026 Crime Rates:
-Atlanta: 161% ⬆️ national avg.
-Los Angeles: 56% ⬆️ national avg.
-Dallas/Fort Worth: 35% ⬆️ national avg.
The numbers don't lie...
Flock cameras do NOT reduce crime.
Republicans have prevented state funding for it thus letting it be run into the ground with no expansion. It is being left to rot and is directly tied to the lack of state support, only transit agency in the country ran like this and we wonder why it has issues. Blame them.
@GAFollowers How about we make Marta more expansive and useful for more people so less people have to drive because statistically way more people die in car crashes than on Marta🧐
@CodyAlcorn Atlanta city officials should be required to ride MARTA for 6 months. That would be the end of MARTA incidents and I bet the police would be visible.
Yk what’s interesting. No one has been murdered on MARTA since 2024
But someone was shot in a road rage incident yesterday. I didn’t see that tweet. Almost like they don’t care about informing the public rather they do bidding for their oil billionaires
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