Design Your Own MARTA Expansion (Atlanta, Marietta: oil, gas, market)

[tikigod311]

Fantastic map fourthwarden! So great to see the possibilities.

What do you use to make the map?

[bu2]

Originally Posted by cqholt

HRT would only be able to serve to North Decatur road, via the CSX ROW.

They are considering substantial tunneling beyond North Decatur with their light rail in the latest version. And they are looking at some aerial sections.

http://www.itsmarta.com/clifton-corr...EL_OPTIONS.pdf

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by afdinatl

If you all could add those Cobb/Gwinnett lines to the current Marta map because I'm going to send it to the Marta CEO and post it in other places. You can add your name on it somewhere to take credit for it

You're doing what with who now?

Originally Posted by cqholt

It's a great map.

Originally Posted by bu2

Impressive work. Looks official.

Originally Posted by tikigod311

Fantastic map fourthwarden! So great to see the possibilities.

What do you use to make the map?

Thanks! I used GIMP.... lots and lots of GIMP.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by bu2

They are considering substantial tunneling beyond North Decatur with their light rail in the latest version. And they are looking at some aerial sections.

http://www.itsmarta.com/clifton-corr...EL_OPTIONS.pdf

If they're gonna tunnel that much, then they need to either go to HRT, go back to the drawing board, or scrap the whole plan. Seriously, all that tunneling in an area that's not heavily commercialized is just dumb.

[afdinatl]

Originally Posted by fourthwarden

You're doing what with who now?








Thanks! I used GIMP.... lots and lots of GIMP.

Just posting it around so people can see visually what expansion in those counties would look like

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by afdinatl

Just posting it around so people can see visually what expansion in those countries would look like

Absolutely! That is how you sell transit in Atlanta. People need to see how it effects them.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by toll_booth

If they're gonna tunnel that much, then they need to either go to HRT, go back to the drawing board, or scrap the whole plan. Seriously, all that tunneling in an area that's not heavily commercialized is just dumb.

It seems to me they are on auto-pilot and they need to re-think it when they add that much cost.

Basically the roads are over-capacity now. Impeding it further with light rail is crazy. So in some cases they are looking at tunneling. There are also probably some grade issues in the area. But they could tunnel in a straight line from North Decatur nearly to Avondale with the amount of tunneling they are doing, so why not HRT? It would pretty much double the ridership by getting rid of transfers based on their preliminary analysis a few years back. They need to go back to the drawing board and re-evaluate the relative costs and benefits.

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by afdinatl

If you all could add those Cobb/Gwinnett lines to the current Marta map because I'm going to send it to the Marta CEO and post it in other places. You can add your name on it somewhere to take credit for it

Still working on Cobb and Top-End Perimeter lines, so standby for those later. Here're the HRT and Commuter Rail options most often seen in Gwinnett. Also a fixed original version

[bu2]

Originally Posted by fourthwarden

Still working on Cobb and Top-End Perimeter lines, so standby for those later. Here're the HRT and Commuter Rail options most often seen in Gwinnett. Also a fixed original version

Clifton in your plan makes sense as an extension of the green line with the blue line going to Stonecrest Mall.

The Clifton Corridor could also extend to Doraville along the Gold line route. The employment in the corridor tends to come from Gwinnett or southeast DeKalb.

[bu2]

When the Red line gets extended, that map makes it clear what a huge gap there is to the northwest.