[ale] Mass Transit was Linux Sys Admin needed

[William Bagwell]

On Thursday 15 June 2006 02:02 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I too have spent some of my years in DC, and DC *does* have Mass Transit
> done right. ?Compare these Train two system maps:
>
> DC Metro:
> http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm
>
> Atlanta:
> http://www.itsmarta.com/getthere/schedules/index-rail.htm
>
> It would take 20 years for Atlanta to catch up. ?Which
> Mayor/Governor/Politician is going to invest time like that?

Catch up? The idiots should never have *abandoned* in the 50s what had 
existed in the 1930s! A bit before my time so I'm not exactly sure when 
they were first built, but depression era trolley lines ran as far as 
Marietta to the north and Stone Mountain to the east. (Probably others 
too.) Cheap, simple rail trolleys that cost a nickel to ride... Or so I 
have been told, I only remember the rotting stations as a small child.

Lingering bitterness over Atlanta killing the trolley, was a primary reason 
why Cobb county rejected joining Marta when it was first proposed back in 
the late 60s or early 70s.
-- 
William