Wesley Joyce on Is Rail Expansion Possible in Atlanta?
Wesley Joyce
Is Rail Expansion Possible in Atlanta?
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- 0:00 Carl, I completely agree with you.
- 0:02 I I think we've maxed out our infrastructure for Marta.
- 0:09 I mean, we've spent so much money on it to get it to where it is now.
- 0:14 And public faith in it is still you know low.
- 0:20 Like there's a lot of people who encourage, yeah, we need to ride Marta, traffic's bad, like do your part and ride Marta.
- 0:27 Then they don't go and do that.
- 0:28 And I'm one of those people, you know, like it's easy to wish that we had a train system that functioned like Europe.
- 0:35 But I mean, I would rather wait in traffic for maybe 15 minutes longer just to be able to sit in my own vehicle and listen to my own music.
- 0:46 Um so I mean they could throw a few billion more dollars at it, but me personally, and I think a lot of other people's share this sentiment.
- 0:56 It's just not that practical.
- 0:58 Like it and you know, if my friend needed to go to the airport and it was me driving him or him taking the Marta, like I'm gonna drive him.
- 1:06 I wouldn't want my friend to take the Marta.
- 1:08 It's not it's not an enjoyable experience, and um I don't know, it it seems like every one of those projects that they propose is so expensive, and it's good for what it's good for now, like you can get to the airport on it, but I just don't see how multiple billions of more dollars of new rail lines is gonna change the public perception on it.
- 1:37 So, you know, I don't know what else you spend that money on.
- 1:41 Um, but I don't think they could do a whole lot to change me and a lot of other people's mentalities on Marta, especially being from out of the city and you know, always driving around, and that's just the way things were.
- 1:58 Like it's a very rare occasion that I consider the Marta as even a possibility.