@Producer285 I only walked two blocks, but this guy passed me along with three people on scooters.
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Stewart Crew
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Stewart Crew
@StewartCrew
I used to complain about @wmata. Now @MARTAtransit. Occasionally I write unsubstantiated hot takes about other stuff. @dcairports hate-tweeted me once. #GoDawgs
Atlanta, GA Katılım Ocak 2009
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Only saw a handful of cars using Juniper on my walk home. Maybe we should take another lane.
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@XanderBJohnson @HowEPhil It's possible to be against an idea without completely lying about it beltline.org/learn/progress…
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No Atlanta Mayor will be highly regarded for filling a few potholes.
Whoever delivers BeltLine rail???
They’re going in the history books.
Eric Phillips@HowEPhil
Atlanta has magic in the air ✨
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@Urban_Connector "The traffic is unbearable, but I'd never use the train station or commuter buses across the street."
Skill issue.
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@MikeConti929 @todosamanaray Not being incendiary but have you ever tried it? Drive to Doraville, park for free. One stop ride to Midtown. Easy walk to Colony Square. Even if it takes 5 mins longer it's quite a bit more pleasant than being surrounded by pissed off aggressive drivers.
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@todosamanaray I don't live close enough to that train station for it to improve my commute.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of getting cars off the street, I just think we're going down a path that could really hurt business and commerce in Midtown.
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First it was Juniper Street, now it’s 14th Street. Who is demanding all of these bike lanes?!
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@MikeConti929 @EdgewoodAdam CobbLinc has two routes that go directly to Arts Center, each arriving every 15-20 mins but ok...
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@EdgewoodAdam We have a number of employees who live in Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas and Paulding Counties. You know as well as I that the train is not an option for them.
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@Pincfx @HowEPhil To work, it's gotta be in a dense area with connections to the bike grid, transit & things to do. No 24 min headways or cancelled buses. The city will have to stand up to business owners crashing out over parking. Does that sound like something @andreforatlanta is willing to do?
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@midwest_it_girl The previous BitBlocker question is a great secondary storyline.
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@GaTechAlum_IE92 @HowEPhil @Urban_Connector You would still be able to do this btw. What's interesting is drivers only count time behind the wheel, not the time spent going back to your car, exiting, finding new parking, paying for it, and walking to the next location. Maybe you will beat the transit user by 2 mins.
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@HowEPhil @Urban_Connector If I had a car, I would not take a train between those areas.
Mainly because if it’s like MARTA and it’s 20 minutes, in-between trains, that’s too slow.
I could’ve drove and took care of business and be on my way back home in 20 minutes 🤷🏾♂️
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👀 About a million people out on the BeltLine and **YOU KNOW** plenty of ‘em would GLADLY take that train between Piedmont Park, Ponce City Market, Krog Street, & MLK National Historic Site if Atlanta leaders stopped blocking progress & simply built it 🚊
Eric Phillips@HowEPhil
Atlanta has magic in the air ✨
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@HowEPhil I always laugh when that one guy who absolutely hates everything about living in the city -- but refuses to leave for some reason -- calls it a brunch tram or whatever... Why is bad to provide public transportation to popular places?
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Atlanta has opened new protected bike lanes on Juniper Street to improve cyclist safety, though some drivers worry about added traffic congestion.
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@alanthefisher For some reason MARTA is giving them $1 million (and up to $10 million) for this project instead of using that for more service of their own. Mind boggling. ajc.com/news/atlanta-n…
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Atlanta will build every stupid unproven doohickey before just giving MARTA more money to run better trains and buses
Everything Georgia@GAFollowers
Atlanta is starting a new public transit system near the airport that uses small self-driving electric pods. People can ride these pods on demand, and they travel on a special path without a driver.
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@HowEPhil @IamKingWilliams Unfortunately the term "investment" has gotten watered down to mean spending money for the sake of spending money. It's not tied to any objectives or outcomes.
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Unless you’re Atlanta, where local elected officials demand the same exact amount of money get spent on the corridor regardless of mode of transportation.
A way to kill transit expansion 101 is not knowing how transit projects work & imposing your opinions on constituents.
Bhaumik Gowande@bhaumikgowande
For the cost of one metro line, cities can build an entire BRT network. BRT offers rapid deployment, wider coverage, and high passenger throughput, making it one of the most cost-effective mass urban mobility solutions. BRT in Xiamen, China.
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@philroc99 @MikeBellATL @KelseaBondATL They get more money from the people who live in and spend time in the neighborhood. If you're just driving from point A to point B, sitting in your car, you're not contributing to the local economy whatsoever.
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@MikeBellATL @KelseaBondATL Who does the city get more tax revenue from? People that drive cars or people that ride bikes. The City of Atlanta doesn't give a shit. They installed a subway without caring where its citizens needed it to go. They've never cared about us.
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@MikeBellATL @KelseaBondATL Why do you live here? Seems like you hate every part of the city. You can podcast from anywhere.
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@KelseaBondATL Enjoy it. Rush hour is now a disaster thanks to it.
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@Jaybow1122 @MidtownATL @atlurbanist @HowEPhil Juniper functioned as a two-lane street before this project because people parked in both curb lanes, so this idea that there has been massively reduced capacity seems untrue. Plus this street is virtually empty for most of the day.
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@MidtownATL @atlurbanist @HowEPhil @MidtownATL what’s the goal here? I’m all for green transportation but how many people ride a bike versus travel by car? Traffic in this city is horrendous. In midtown it’s complicated further by delivery trucks and others turning a lane into a parking lot (hazards on).
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We visited Juniper Street to see the newly opened bike lane in action!
One down side: there's no northbound counterpart for this southbound lane and several people were going the "wrong" way. It's going to be awkward until a northbound one is built.
Nonetheless, it's progress!
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@Standard_Duck @GAFollowers Why don't you consider these to be expensive? They require building dedicated infrastructure and they are specialized vehicles without readily available parts.
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@GAFollowers As I’ve been saying for a decade, this is the Beltline solution, no need for expensive rail.
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Atlanta is starting a new public transit system near the airport that uses small self-driving electric pods.
People can ride these pods on demand, and they travel on a special path without a driver.
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Can’t believe he’s still crying about this. People who live in the city deserve to get around safely outside of personal cages.
Midtown Atlanta@MidtownATL
@MikeBellATL Actually, Mike, we did run traffic modeling studies and conducted years of community engagement to earn a permit from the City. We also studied safety. In the 5 years before construction started, there were 620+ crashes on Juniper involving motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.
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@MikeBellATL There's a train station across the street from your office.
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Inconvenience folks who work in Midtown trying to get home and folks who work outside of Midtown and live in Midtown trying to get home. Anyone run a study of how this would impact traffic flow in Midtown? Guess not. Disaster.
Midtown Atlanta@MidtownATL
🚴🚦 Hooray! Juniper St bike lanes are officially OPEN southbound from 14th St to Ponce. All traffic, ped + bike signals are operating. While the lane is open, there could be temp closures as contractor is still working to address punch list items. 🙏 Thx for hanging in there.
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@ferdydurking @HowEPhil @ATLDOT B-Cycle has been pretty successful at rolling out bike shares in smaller areas like Greenville, SC and Santa Barbara, CA.
ATL's network won't be as expansive as Citibike or CaBi but it can work, especially in denser areas and along popular routes bcycle.com/top-nav-bar/fi…
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@ATLDOT has a new survey about your support (or not) of bringing back docked bike stations in Atlanta & how much you’d want to pay for a bike ride.
Let them know what you think about that…
survey.alchemer.com/s3/8641259/Cit…
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