Hines Harmon0:00 Hey, what's up, y'all?0:01 I just want to talk about Atlanta's sneaky new way of updating its transit system.0:06 Uh Atlanta, throughout the years, hasn't had the best transit, but right now they're developing the belt line with some parts already developed.0:13 But the goal is to make it 22 miles round long and for it to run through Atlanta, and it's gonna connect 45 neighborhoods.0:20 Right now it's not as long, but it has a lot of apartments by it, uh a lot of bars and restaurants, and it's great for the community.0:27 Uh and it's you know a great time.0:29 But what they're doing right now is they're trying to work on adding light transit as well.0:33 So not only will it be a big walking trail and bike trail that connect Atlanta, but also start adding more light transit, which we know Atlanta needs, as Marta is not very efficient at covering Atlanta at all.0:45 I do want to talk about we also need to update Marta.0:48 Uh you can really only get to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium with Marta and Midtown, and besides that, it's not very useful.0:56 I rarely use Marta, and I live very close to a station, and the buses aren't great either.1:02 There's a lot of traffic, and we need to fix it.1:04 So yeah.
Vansh Patel0:00 Heinz, I think you brought up a very interesting topic, and that's one that definitely needs to be addressed.0:06 The belt line would be a significant improvement to the transit system in Atlanta because right now, obviously, with Marta and how our highways are structured, the infrastructure of Atlanta is not meant to be a walkable city.0:25 It's meant to be a car-dependent town.0:29 There's not many places in Atlanta where you can walk around freely from home living to entertainment to necessities such as food.0:40 There's just not many places to do that.0:42 So I think the addition of the belt line would be a significant improvement in that realm.0:49 Really making our town seem more like some of these other bigger towns, such as New York or Miami or just things like that, more much more walkable.1:01 Another interesting thing I had to bring up was when you look in the correlation of walking towns to just public health in general, there's definitely a significant correlation in that.1:18 Some of these look at Spain, for example.1:20 There's some cities in Spain where they're primarily walking-based travel.1:28 And I think it has definitely a tremendous impact on the health of its of its people.1:44 And I think adding that to Atlanta would tremendously benefit uh Atlanta's uh natives.1:51 Uh just being able to walk uh throughout town and get all forms of what you need uh from necessity, food, travel, clothing, uh, housing, I think that's gonna be a really big change.2:08 And while we can't change the infrastructure of Atlanta anymore, how it's structured with our highways and our uh the lack of rail system, I think the belt line will be the necessary addition that can change how people even view Atlanta and will definitely improve the quality of life here.2:32 So, yeah, great point.