Comments on: Add It Up: ’sMARTA, but also broke http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/add-it-up-%e2%80%99smarta-but-also-broke/ Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:21:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BTI http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/add-it-up-%e2%80%99smarta-but-also-broke/comment-page-1/#comment-101395 BTI Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:04:09 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10944#comment-101395 so more paying customers and higher ridership will fix the problem, smartaR? Well the nyc subway moves about 30x the people each day that marta does, and guess what all those paying customers get for their effort....a $1.2 billion deficit. Like the story said, sales tax declines and no help from the state are to blame. so more paying customers and higher ridership will fix the problem, smartaR? Well the nyc subway moves about 30x the people each day that marta does, and guess what all those paying customers get for their effort….a $1.2 billion deficit.

Like the story said, sales tax declines and no help from the state are to blame.

]]> By: james http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/add-it-up-%e2%80%99smarta-but-also-broke/comment-page-1/#comment-101366 james Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:44:05 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10944#comment-101366 sure enough, every time something about marta is posted you get some genius like "smartaR" posting a bunch of myths and half-truths about marta. rampant fare jumping?? WTF? i ride marta every day and never see this. and marta stations attendants at all the breeze gates to watch for this. i have also notice that the bus drivers are especially vigilant about refusing to board psgrs without fare loaded. wow? no cops at the decatur station on saturday morning? that must be why i keep reading all these reports of rampant crime sprees at the decatur marta station on saturday mornings. whatever. sure enough, every time something about marta is posted you get some genius like “smartaR” posting a bunch of myths and half-truths about marta.

rampant fare jumping?? WTF? i ride marta every day and never see this. and marta stations attendants at all the breeze gates to watch for this. i have also notice that the bus drivers are especially vigilant about refusing to board psgrs without fare loaded.

wow? no cops at the decatur station on saturday morning? that must be why i keep reading all these reports of rampant crime sprees at the decatur marta station on saturday mornings.

whatever.

]]> By: smartaR http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/15/add-it-up-%e2%80%99smarta-but-also-broke/comment-page-1/#comment-101339 smartaR Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:41:36 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10944#comment-101339 If they'd do something about the rampant fare-jumping, they might make up some of that. I can't tell you how many times I've been shadowed gruffly through the flippy doors by individuals of an unseemly and often odiferous nature. And why are there fifty MARTA cops at the Peachtree stations and not a one at Decatur on Saturday mornings? Is my safety not as important as Ima Visitin from Omaha? If they’d do something about the rampant fare-jumping, they might make up some of that. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been shadowed gruffly through the flippy doors by individuals of an unseemly and often odiferous nature. And why are there fifty MARTA cops at the Peachtree stations and not a one at Decatur on Saturday mornings? Is my safety not as important as Ima Visitin from Omaha?

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