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Tejas Kotak
@tkotak013
Bus rider. Tweets about transportation policy and nonsense. First name like advantageous. He/him
Atlanta, GA Katılım Haziran 2015
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@HowEPhil I would bump up North Avenue BRT to Top 5. That's a lot of negotiation with GDOT to get it done, but needs to start ASAP to get it done. There's so much ridership we can get from that route, and crosstown local routes that would also benefit from bus lanes.
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Atlanta can deliver vast majority of transit projects on More MARTA list. Takes pulling a few levers, not increasing taxes, & being judicious with both funds & project delivery.
No public budget suggests otherwise.
Take a look at sample ranked list. Where would you prioritize?
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"I believe that the Beltline is a failure without rail."
— Atlanta City Council member Liliana Bakhtiari, addressing MARTA interim general manager and CEO Jonathan Hunt at Wednesday's Transportation Committee
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@tkotak013 @HowEPhil Expanded buses too, just none of this “autonomous vehicles” nonsense.
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Transit innovation would be figuring out how to deliver Beltline rail at a faster pace so the Eastside, which is most ready for it, and the Southside both get it. And faster builds for safe streets.
Innovate with procurement and delivery. Not with untested technologies.
Atlanta Beltline@AtlantaBeltline
Even as timelines and implementation strategies evolve, we remain committed to the long-term vision for transit along the corridor. Learn more about where we are with transit and where we hope to go below. beltline.org/blog/beltline-…
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Driving through a city SHOULD be inconvenient if you're driving at the same time as everyone else.
The issue is geometry, not ideology. There's only so much space.
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@MCxinnovation Excited to try these out soon! I wonder if the gates are tall enough to dissuade fare evaders like the new ones at BART.
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#MARTA's better breeze program to entirely replace the current fare systems includes hundreds of new faregates and ticket vending machines (TVM) at all 38 rail stations. This is what the new stations may look like: itsmarta.com/betterbreeze.a…
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@KelseaBondATL Yes! This, being more careful with tax breaks, and more housing will bring in so much revenue for good things.
Excited this is finally moving forward.
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So excited to see movement on this. The outcome of this audit could mean HUGE wins for our city, school and county budgets! #TaxTheRich
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@barely_th3re @a_bearded_ry @ATLDOT Yes! Was coming here to say the same. Tech campus has a lot of great bike infrastructure that the city and region should copy.
I like the Juniper St bike lane design, too! Just need it to actually open...
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@a_bearded_ry @ATLDOT this is basically what Ferst Dr looks like now
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When @ATLDOT will we get this in Atlanta?? This should be a standard across all cities!
lej@_lej44
Santa Monica’s latest concrete bike lane + bus islands finally fully finished! This should be the standard in greater LA:
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@lymanstoneky @CardmeisterGuy @lawfare podcast had great episode on Ukraine, and part of the drone innovation is that a lot of the advances are made by hobbyists and small groups. Not a big company.
Yes to a drone gigafactory for base models, but let thousands of "regular" people innovate extra things.
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NATO forces are wildly unprepared for the next war. We need to be training them with modern weapons, and that means we need to be *producing* modern weapons.
Million-drone-gigafactory *now*.
MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀@Maks_NAFO_FELLA
❗️The Ukrainian Armed Forces defeated 2 NATO battalions in just one day during exercises, — WSJ ⭕️Last year, 16,000 soldiers from 12 NATO countries underwent training in Estonia. ⭕️In one scenario, a British brigade and an Estonian division attacked the Ukrainians: the Ukrainian Armed Forces defeated the opponents so much that the NATO army could no longer fight.
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@cbenderatl Lack of enough housing is likely a major issue. We need zoning reform to allow the market to build, and public housing for people who need it.
Expanded heavy rail would help a lot, too.
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We need to figure out why other metros are passes us ASAP and I think the #1 issue is our traffic problem.
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@frogs4girls The Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty - medium length fantasy
Salvagers series by Alex White - longer space opera (magic in space)
Children of Time + sequels by Adrian Tchaikovsky - longer hard sci-fi
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@BellaBaddie__ Mom, grandma, trial and error, and the cooking side of YouTube.
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@ScogginsWi59545 @barely_th3re The buses will be in the toll lanes, which are *supposed to* be dynamically priced to keep vehicles moving at 45+ mph. So buses will go a decent speed. Then dedicated spots at stations.
Still. Should have been a train.
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@barely_th3re The article doesn’t make it clear, will their be BRT only lanes? Or will the buses be competing with other traffic still
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my problem with this project is that you can already take a connecting bus that gets stuck in traffic to North Springs and transfer to the Red line to your office job in Midtown/Downtown
Urbanize Atlanta@UrbanizeATL
Billion-dollar highway overhaul, BRT project officially barreling ahead. atlanta.urbanize.city/post/georgia-4…
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Paying for transit...
Some want it to be like the library. Everyone pays in, and free for those who use it. Valid idea.
I think of it like public water utilities: Widespread taxes can cover some of it, but individuals still pay for what you use. Cheap, but not entirely free.
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@laugh_track_nat I watched a lot of cooking videos on YouTube, experimented in the kitchen, and loosely followed recipes from cursory searches or from those YT videos.
It was all about practice and giving myself grace to fail. Imperfections in cooking can the best flavour for some.
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@CNLiberalism @big_pedestrian Largely agree that water use is a more minor problem in most of the US.
Metro Atlanta had both water and energy availability + cost as real issues before data center came in, and now those issues are exacerbated by hyperscalers. So locally you can have a Both And problem.
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It is eternally hilarious that data centers create a real problem (energy use) but activists have instead chosen to hyperfixate on a completely fake problem (water use)
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @fernnews: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
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@IamKingWilliams I use it sometimes, but in a way to celebrate how unreal the city culture can feel. People are out here doing wild things, being themselves, and having fun.
I use the phrase as a comment on how unique and authentic the city's culture and people are. Maybe I'm using it wrong?
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I really hate when people say “Atlanta isn’t a real place” …this is mostly from sheltered suburbanites, people not used to living in cities or people not used to Atlanta, which has always been a place for Black people to be themselves
Everything Georgia@GAFollowers
Just hooting & hollering 😂😂 🎥- dejafit/TT
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