MARTA train in Atlanta evacuated due to fire

shite, this happens on the DC Metro like once a month.

Well, we can rule out a championship riot.

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a fire shut down two stations

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it's atlanta, so you can catch up with the other 25 points

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When I moved to ATL in 2000 I was overwhelmed with how amazingly healthy the infrastructure was. The streets all over the city were kept up. The medians, the public transportation, etc. After the economic collapse of 2007/8 everything has gone down. Even the wealthy suburbs of Buckhead Dunwoody EastCobb Roswell have potholes half the depth of a car tire and they "fix" them by placing metal plates over them which are just as damaging to your car as the potholes. Now with the 85 collapse and the 20 explosion and Piedmont being shut down, 285 can take a person 4 hours to drive 30 miles. And MARTA has too many employees who have not kept up maintaining the transit system so now that it's being heavily used by suburban Atlanta, it's crumbling from the weight. And taxes keep rising and more and more people keep moving into the city and surrounding suburbs are ever expanding.

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When my family and I visited Atlanta in '95 my old man said MARTA must stand for "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta."

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I used MARTA all the time when I first moved here and had a condo in Midtown. I made the mistake of buying out in the suburbs after the economic collapse buying a large foreclosed home and a dirt cheap price. Now I wish I still lived in the city center. I work in Buckhead. When we used MARTA I saw the ratio of (on the rails) 60-75% white. I never used the buses so I can't say the ratio there.

Now with the 85 collapse and the rails being standing room only, the rail system is majority whites asians Indians using park and ride into the city.