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This is what I'd be happy with. Something to get me the 20-50 miles between cities (Atlanta<->Winder<->Athens in particular), or through the closed highway loop
by mkr-hn 5y ago
This is what I'd be happy with. Something to get me the 20-50 miles between cities (Atlanta<->Winder<->Athens in particular), or through the closed highway loops around them. Driving within them isn't so boring that my focus wanders before I notice it's wandering.
We could just expand MARTA, but the NIMBY crowd won't allow it. People are still hopped up on 1980s fearmongering about the sorts of people who live in cities and don't want them infesting their nice, quiet suburbs that still have the Sherriff posting about huge drug and gun busts.
- ghaff 5y agoPublic transit isn't a panacea for suburbs/small cities. I'm about a 7 minute drive from the commuter rail into Boston but because of both schedule and time to take a non-express train, it's pretty much impractical to take into the city except for a 9-5 workday schedule, especially if I need to take a subway once I get into town. For me, it's more the 3-5 hour drive, mostly on highways, to get up to northern New England.