Transport Policy * USA - Subways and Light Rail Are a Poor Fit for Sprawling Atlanta
City's Low Density Means Buses are Better Form of Transit
Los Angeles,CA,USA -The Reason Foundation -9 June 2007: -- ... The following expert describes a similar condition to that of the Seattle/Bellevue/Eastside area- we do not have the density of Paris, Hong Kong or Barcelona that is necessary to draw enough ridership to justify the staggering cost of light rail in our region filled with lakes, hills, protected wetland areas, glacial till and fault zones. We have single family homes and suburbs... Light Rail will not serve our communities in a cost-efficient way and will not provide enough congestion relief to justify the cost... "Instead of trying to copy European or Asian rail systems that can't be recreated in Atlanta, officials should be looking at the transit system most suited to their reality: buses... Atlanta should look to bus rapid transit and express toll lane busways that could provide the time-savings and efficiency that might actually lure people out of their cars"... I recently rode the 550 bus to jury duty in Downtown Seattle. It was fast, clean, comfortable, efficient and dropped me off 1 block away from my destination. We concur... “Thank goodness for Reason…one sane voice fighting tons of nonsense”...
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