[ale] Mass Transit was Linux Sys Admin needed

Jim ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Mon Jun 19 21:19:18 EDT 2006


William Bagwell wrote:
> 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.
>   
Thank the tire companies, as I understand it they killed all trolleys in 
the US (via politics) so they could sell more tires.

jim.



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