Transit: Other cities build while Atlanta rots

States that aren’t controlling by parochial, city-hatin’ hicks seem to be doing okay

The following recent headlines were selected by me to make you angry.

Denver Post: Pace to pick up on West light-rail line

ProgressiveRailroading.com: WMATA outlines plans for $202 million in stimulus funds

San Francisco Business Times: California bullet train gets $29M loan

Daily Journal of Commerce: MAX light rail boosted by bond sale

Arizona Republic: New light-rail plans call for more track and expansion into Mesa

Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio passenger rail chugs ahead

Even during the nation’s current economic disaster, other metro areas are growing and improving their mass transit networks.

Meanwhile Atlanta’s economy is held hostage by the city-hatin’, parochial idiots who run the state government.