LL

Start a business, mind your own.

[LL @kloud229]

@joshuawx_ I think Marta gains more than revenue by guarding the fare gates. I wonder how many of their other issues are linked to people who didn't pay

[Certified Ugly Boy @_6FEET]

“I gotta get out Atlanta it’s nothing here”

- a mf living in Covington

[Clint Lamb @ClintRLamb]

“We had 50 players in the draft this year that were over 25-years-old competing against 17 and 18-year-olds...” - Nick Saban

Why’s that important? Well… here’s Will Anderson Jr. at 17-18 years old (left) versus Will Anderson Jr. at 25 years old (right) 😂

[LL @kloud229]

@GaTechAlum_IE92 @MARTAtransit 😂

[LL @kloud229]

@GaTechAlum_IE92 @MARTAtransit I agree. I’m for a total revamp of the organization but I don’t have much confidence in the state doing any better.

[MARTA @MARTAtransit]

A safety message from MARTA.

[LL @kloud229]

Road rage shooting victim drives into Roswell after being shot in Cobb County, police say https://t.co/pbWTPOv8s7

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reports reveal GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sold 3 lakefront properties shortly after he became governor.

The properties had been listed for over a decade, and the people who bought the properties were later given valuable government contracts and appointed to high-ranking positions.

[Gustavo Fring @zone6nova]

Georgia should be blank or Spurs because we show ain't rooting for the Knicks 😂

[Julian Mille☈ @ATLAreaWx]

All crickets here compared to the MARTA incident

[WSB-TV @wsbtv]

12 killed in Georgia Memorial Day weekend crashes https://t.co/pEui7MVo7y

[Ben Mwaba, PEIZ @mwaba_ben]

One thing about adulthood that way too many people learn way too late (and have no choice but to learn the hard way): you have to be deliberate/proactive about everything. For the first time in your life, you can't be passive participant in anything.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Transit saved 8 minutes over walking. Eight.

The bus covered that distance in 1 hour 6 minutes. Your legs would have done it in 1 hour 14 minutes. The entire transit system, the route planning, the stops, the transfers, bought a 12% speed advantage over putting one foot in front of the other.

The 7-minute drive tells you why. Since the 1980s, federal transportation funding has followed an 80/20 split: 80% for highways, 20% for transit. Over 65 years, the US spent roughly $10 trillion on roads and about one-quarter of that on subways, buses, and rail. The average state spent $166 per capita on transit between 2018 and 2023. On highways, $622 per capita in 2021 alone.

That ratio built exactly what this screenshot shows. Roads got six-lane expressways with synchronized lights and dedicated interchanges. Buses got a route that zigzags through three neighborhoods to serve enough stops to justify the line's existence, because ridership is too low to run direct service, because the routes are too slow to attract riders.

Three-quarters of all US public transit trips happen in just 10 metro areas. New York alone accounts for 4 out of every 10. Outside those cities, the bus exists as a political concession, not a transportation system.

The 7-minute drive and the 1-hour bus ride aren't failures of the same system. One got $10 trillion. The other got the leftovers.

[Kelsea Bond 🌹 @KelseaBondATL]

BREAKING NEWS: Billionaire class who’s been pulling strings all along to kill Beltline rail finally goes mask off.

Alex Taylor, CEO of Cox, writes in his OWN newspaper that he thinks he understands the needs of working Atlantans better than they do. https://t.co/w9dBfWpVbB

[Ryan Gravel @ryangravel]

Guy who doesn't need transit decides nobody else does either. #dogwhistle

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold."

So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house?

I didn't sell it.
I didn't cash out.
I didn't make a profit.

But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year.

Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

[Janerius Wickerson @TheMSeries1]

"Why can't Atlanta do better with public transportation?"
The answer:

[FakeGregA @GregAlexander8]

great thread on trade offs in transit. underlying it all is awful urban design / sprawl that is transit-resistant. a system based on segregation puts buses in a bad situation.

[Eric Phillips @HowEPhil]

A lot of people have been dunking on all the construction in Atlanta happening in a short timespan… I get it…

Also shows ability to get shit done quickly when we put effort & money behind it.

We can do much more than resurface streets- & we should empower @ATLDOT to do so.

[kelsey sutton @kelseytsutton]

lmao