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re: Confirmed: Braves Leaving Turner Field After 2016 Season
Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:12 am to Wally Sparks
Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:12 am to Wally Sparks
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Buses should also fill that function, but they unfortunately have a huge racial stigma.
That, and in the large cities of the world I've been to the busses generally don't run on time or are reliable.
Except the UK and Ireland for some reason, those busses were awesome.
Lived suburban in the USA so I don't have many US buss trips under my belt however I can say with certainty the ones I have had generally sucked.
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Posted on 11/13/13 at 11:49 am to YouthInAsia
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DC metro spreads two states and the district. The above excuse is bullshite.
DC Metro has plenty of stops, and except on the outer edges, 90% of stops lead to a part of town that is walkable and has stuff to do. There's also loops connecting different regions. Atlanta? Midtown stops, and then some outer stops, but there's no interconnectivity to make them useful. For instance, Decatur is not practical for anybody near the northern perimeter because it would take 2 hours to get there through MARTA. The whole thing seems designed to funnel people towards five points, which nobody wants to go to.
So even if you made it 7 minutes between trains (like Metro), people still wouldn't ride.
All that aside, you could make it incredibly efficient, and I don't think the northern burbs types would want to ride it. It's just not their thing.
So it's a chicken or the egg scenario, and neither is happening any time soon. That's why it makes no sense for Cobb to get involved.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 1:40 pm to NukemVol
Posted on 11/13/13 at 1:58 pm to CatFan81
Dumb Question Alert: Is the new stadium still going to be called Turner Field?
Posted on 11/13/13 at 2:05 pm to NotoriousFSU
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Dumb Question Alert: Is the new stadium still going to be called Turner Field?
Probably not unless Turner Broadcasting pays to have their name on the field.
It'll more than likely be named after Coca Cola or Home Depot.
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 11/13/13 at 2:10 pm to NotoriousFSU
Not likely since turner is no longer involved. Hopefully we can get a corporate sponsor for additional revenue.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 2:11 pm to DawgCountry
Cheesecake Factory Field
Posted on 11/13/13 at 2:16 pm to bayoubengal03
Damn that would be sweet. Pun intended.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 3:14 pm to P-Dawg
Or Delta maybe?
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 11/13/13 at 3:58 pm to sowega dawg
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Delta
I'm thinking this or Coke. How about Delta Field at Coke Stadium presented by Home Depot?
Posted on 11/13/13 at 4:42 pm to DawgCountry
Don't know...Turner (Ted or otherwise) hasn't been part of Braves since it was sold to Liberty Media from Time Warner.
I believe they'll still do something to honor Ted.
I believe they'll still do something to honor Ted.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 4:55 pm to bayoubengal03
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Cheesecake Factory Field
It may be closer than you think ( LINK):
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One feature county Chairman Tim Lee believes will add to the accessibility of the proposed Cobb County Atlanta Braves stadium is a bridge that will span I-285, connecting the Galleria office park with the 60-acre property where the stadium is expected to be built.
Lee said the bridge would be for pedestrians and for a shuttle that would pick up fans from around the area and bring them to the game.
“So, let’s say you go to Cumberland Mall and you’re having dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and you want to go to the game,” Lee said. “Instead of driving over there, you leave your car where it is, you get on the tram, and it goes over and drops you off right in front of the Braves stadium, and at the end of the day you go in reverse.”
Posted on 11/13/13 at 5:12 pm to Wally Sparks
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City of Atlanta gets by giving the Braves the old Olympic Stadium
Do what?ACOG paid for the VAST majority of the Olympic Stadium... are you freakin kidding me?
The Braves paid a hefty lease fee every year and footed over $125 milloin. out of their pocket for upkeep.
This was a cash cow for the city of Atl and they took full advantage of the BRAVES and their fans.
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 11/13/13 at 5:42 pm to gatorhata9
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I'm thinking this or Coke. How about Delta Field at Coke Stadium presented by Home Depot?
Does GP have the money to sponsor something like this?
Posted on 11/13/13 at 5:44 pm to Wally Sparks
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“So, let’s say you go to Cumberland Mall and you’re having dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and you want to go to the game,” Lee said. “Instead of driving over there, you leave your car where it is, you get on the tram, and it goes over and drops you off right in front of the Braves stadium, and at the end of the day you go in reverse.”
You can't make this stuff up
Posted on 11/13/13 at 6:35 pm to Wally Sparks
Interesting. That adds a lot of parking.
Posted on 11/14/13 at 8:26 am to DawgCountry
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Interesting. That adds a lot of parking.
It does. I just hope that if you're over in one of those areas on a game day, with no intentions of going to the game, that they don't charge you to park there. That would be the only downside to that.
Posted on 11/14/13 at 8:48 am to gatorhata9
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It does. I just hope that if you're over in one of those areas on a game day, with no intentions of going to the game, that they don't charge you to park there. That would be the only downside to that.
You know people going to the game will abuse the hell out of that though.
Posted on 11/14/13 at 8:52 am to Wally Sparks
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You know people going to the game will abuse the hell out of that though.
Yea. I don't know how they're going to handle it.
Posted on 11/14/13 at 8:54 am to NukemVol
The cities in the Northeast (and Midwest to a lesser extent) are built in a way that makes effective mass transit possible. Atlanta isn't. Marta is essentially a commuter rail, not a rapid rail despite its classification as such. They need to study rapid transit better and build it if they want Marta to truly be successful.
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