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Let be clear its not the homeless people are worried about. We all know what demographic causes people to move out.

Atlanta is a commie fartbox and i avoid it like a broken commode...

plz do less transtions, the music is not the same volume as ur voice.

I feel your pain. It’ll become denser. Example Austin. Great video. Enjoyed hearing your views.

I lived in Atlanta my whole life and everyone knew why you didn't go downtown after dark. It had nothing to do with parking, cars, any of that.... It was violent crime. Politicians desperately think that they can pretty up the City by putting the aquarium, centennial Park, and all those other gimmicks in the downtown area. But the bottom line is when you've got homeless, drug addicts, and gang bangers looking for opportunities and easy victims. No one is going to go down there... That's the truth about Atlanta

They trying to get everyone to go to cobb county 🤦🏿‍♂️

Too many gimmicks that are expensive save uninteresting.

Having another thought about Atlanta...another perspective. Downtown Atlanta is more like the business end like NYC's Manhattan financial district...busy during the day empty at night. I do know Atlanta is a city of neighborhoods and have always noticed that and I can compare it with Chicago in that way. Chicago is famous for all it's different neighborhoods and starting only a few blocks away from downtown Atlanta you come into different neighborhoods in any direction you go and they're all very pedestrian and walkable...plenty of stores, shops, restaurants, etc. You leave one neighborhood and enter another...each with it's own unique flavor, stores and shops...walk or drive in any direction and you will see but it's better to have an idea of the layout beforehand. Seeing Atlanta in this way is like a breath of fresh air.

I used to live in the midtown area and have been coming back on the weekends over the last few years. Atlanta is the only city with a downtown that has no stores or shops. All the high-rise buildings are boarded up, locked and empty and have been that way for years. Sit in front of any office building for as long as you want and you will never see anyone go in or come out. I'm thinking they're keeping the immigrants there. As for crime downtown...it's all hype...I never found anything dangerous there and I walked around at night going to different restaurants...never had a problem at all. There are people downtown but the people that upload all the videos you watch are afraid to walk around so they film their videos early in the mornings like Sunday before anything opens and the same with their driving videos...all done early mornings when no one is out and about...no people and no cars...that's why it always looks empty. Those are videos made by sheep for sheep...the sheeple of the world. Maybe some day in the far future Atlanta might actually turn into a city but not having any stores, shops and being as unwelcoming as it is I don't call it a city. Even small towns have stores and shops but Atlanta...nope...not a one. I'm not sure what to call Atlanta but it's not a city...not a real city but maybe in the world of make-believe you could.

Absolutely fantastic content. This channel is massively underrated. Keep up the great work!

atlanta NEEDS this commuter rail but the problem is what line they will take into downtown atlanta if its CSX there is no problem but if its NS there will be some problems since the NS line itself gets over 50 trains a day

Streetcar is the perfect mode (versus LRT or BRT) too for this corridor because of its compact size and its ROW is less over engineered... it fits in more

Once gentrification started all the free festivals and entertainment stopped. Use to be a block party, event, or festival every other weekend if not every week.

Atlanta bums me out in general. Driving past it on I75 it just looks like a dystopian city and it’s ‘cultural demographic’ now is a bunch of Indian people and blacks with dreadlocks in brightly colored clothing and Jordans. “But there’s the Coke factory!” Pffffft, I’ve been to college towns that were more exciting than that dump.

Aaaand these referendums both failed. Cobb County will never change.

Every time I go home to visit my family, my brother and I went downtown. We had a blast riding the EV scooters everywhere. We rode the Marta and it wasn’t that bad actually. Just really limited and slow. You can see the potential, but other than that, the rest of Atlanta is honestly boring. They need more parks, better roads, and make things WALKABLE!! I don’t understand why the mayor doesn’t have a plan to connect the airport to downtown. Then improve and connect the stops and major attacations. Make some updated attractions. Not only would it bring more revenue from people stuck at the airport, but people would actually want to travel. Not to mention the traffic. At this point, they might as well close the city off to vehicles. LOL (yeah I know), but even tho I”m joking, I’m kinda not. Make a few roads accessible to download, than make them one way streets. I know it’s harder than it sounds, but it’d doable. Anyway, nothing gonna happen in our lifetime.. just sucks

They need to convert about 1/10th of the inner city through roads and parking lots into Pedestrian Boulevards, social-business-entertainment blocks, parks etc; and1/5th of the through roads into dedicated Bus or Streetcar Routes. and build more transit to fill it. Then people can migrate to transit, walk and live a more joyful, healthier, fitter and prosperous and sociable life - in my opinion -

I thinking its going to be far less expensive to build useful greenspace elsewhere besides atop the interstate. That's going to do nothing to improve getting there. And the people there don't want greenspace, they want to be in their office towers at work. So write the interstate area as a wasteland of traffic. Improve traffic flow by building rail into Gwinnett County alongside i85 to rideshare locations (northeast of Atlanta where the population just crossed above 1,000,000 in 2024). The money would be far better spent with greenspaces in other Areas of Atlanta. Put the money into MARTA, the Streetcar project and Beltline instead. Give some funding to Gwinnett County and Cobb County (both to the north of Atlanta with 2,000,000+ people) to have rail suck the traffic off of i85 and i75.

That amount of money could be better spent elsewhere within MARTA. Also, I like the fortress bunker like look of 5 Points, and so too did a lot of other folks when they designed it. If someone wants an open airy MARTA Station, build it somewhere else. Then, 20 years from now folks can start complaining about how "open and airy" it is. Atlanta needs to build up the areas around current MARTA stations with pleasant open airy pedestrian-bke roadways and village like shops. The people there will be non-car people who love transit, especially rail. So then the ridership will increase by being in areas where their riders are. Putting Stations in the middle of giant parking lots with nothing but heavy traffic all around just makes people want to stay in their cars in the first place. Last things, watch out for special committees and their bad ideas that are going to cripple MARTA and a healthy Atlanta social community

Transit is popular with real people in the area. Special interests just want Atlanta to be a labor center, no quality of life, just measured hours of productive economic output. Those special interests pretend to represent real people. They try to influence real people and tell them "everyone" is against these "wasteful" projects. And in the end, many turn against them. But many more don't. The special interests try to make their manipulated flock shout loudly against it. So, it's up to real people to step up on the soap box and yell a bit louder, "I want a quality life. I want a quality neighborhood. I want to be able not live in a giant parking lot and traffic jam. I want to have a social life that includes being able to walk and talk and make friends and smell the flowers and ride the street car and sip a cup coffee and laugh, and not just go to work and come home exhausted and lock the door to get sleep enough for tomorrow, day after day after day!" say it folks

Look at henry County. They have an 8 percent sales tax and no public transit

You know nobody has pulled over a Marta bus.

I see CobbLinc, I click

I voted Yes on the Transit SPLOST in Gwinnett. We need to fix the suburbs ✌🏾

The wolves come out at night and they are hungry.

Sure why not extend the failure and huge waste of money of the street car into a truly colossal waste and failure and ruin the belt line as a bonus.

I voted early just so I could vote against the gigantic waste of taxes on bus transit. The plan is to spend tens of billions of dollars on bus infrastructure that will result in absolutely zero access to public transit for most cobb county residents. That they would have the gaul to propose this nonsense is enough reason to vote against it.

They don't need a train, they could just get long linked golf carts on the beltline path.

lived in atlanta since 2013 and it's become increasingly sketchy and dangerous in the city and even the surrounding areas since the 2020 lockdowns. doesn't feel like it use to.

Instead of concentrating all the stores into one spot, it would be better to spread them out. Mixed with residential units. It's the same thing with that supposedly 'mixed use' place they built near the Atlanta IKEA. Where they put residential areas on one side, and that mall place on the whole other side. Not too much mixing actually. Governments just don't want to mix the two.

I think the path is too skinny. If you're mixing people biking and walking on that skinny path in both directions, that's not a very comfortable experience. I don't think it would cost too much to have made it twice as wide.

That's all their plan everything in ga is a setup, you only realize once you've lived somewhere else.

Who wants to ride a bus??

Bringing transit change to the suburbs can lead to wonderful things, like NJ Transit's River Line! The River Line is an interurban that goes between Trenton and Camden, and it provides a crucial connection for the Delaware River communities! It has connections like the PATCO Speedline and the Atlantic City Line as well! There's also a cool walkable colonial suburb that the line serves near Trenton called Bordentown. Bordentown is filled with transportation and revolutionary history! In 1734, Joseph Borden started a stage line and packet service between Bordentown and Philly. In the 1830s, the Camden and Amboy Railroad (NJ's first railroad) used the John Bull locomotive which is now in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History! And in 1834, the Delaware and Raritan Canal (which helped transport anthracite coal to NYC during much of the 19th and early 20th centuries) had their Lock 1 at Bordentown. Bordentown was once the home of many revolutionaries. Patience Lovell Wright, the US's first female sculptor lived in Bordentown from age four to sixteen, and is known for creating wax busts in King George's court in England. Patriots like Francis Hopkinson (a signer of the US Declaration of Independence) and Thomas Paine (who authored Common Sense and The American Crisis) also lived in Bordentown. Besides American patriots, Bordentown was also the home of Napoleon's older brother Joseph Bonaparte and Joseph's daughter Charlotte who did landscape paintings while in NJ. And Bordentown was home to NJ's first free school by Clara Barton in 1852, who later founded the American Red Cross in 1881! Even in DPRK urban planning, we have prevented sprawl! DPRK urban-planning includes limited urban sprawl, as new developments in DPRK cities tend to take the place of older areas of the city, rather than building new developments further out. In Pyongyang, this is the case with the developments of Mirae (Future) Scientists Street in 2015, Changjon Street in 2012, Songhwa Street in 2022, Hwasong Street in 2024, and Ryomyong (Dawn) Street in 2023. In DPRK cities, there are micro-districts, which are made up of residences alongside their supporting amenities like public spaces, offices, shops, and schools. A key aspect is both the equality of the residential buildings and the encouragement of people to spend more time in the community, hence the focus on parks and playgrounds. Almost all cities in the DPRK have one primary central square, often the site of a monument, a revolutionary museum, or other significant buildings that either political or cultural. After Pyongyang was destroyed in the 1950s, Pyongyang was redesigned to become the ideal socialist city. Before the war, the city had trams, but now the city rebuilt its tram network as well as having a trolleybus network, a metro system (one of the world's deepest), and even bikeshare! To maximize the effectiveness of labor and production for workers, they created several leisure parks in the city so that the public could have enough rest and recover before returning to production. Pyongyang aimed to set aside self-productive units within the city. Pyongyang continues to be planned based on a unit district system that combines the industrial and residential so that residents can both produce and consume their products. Pyongyang's central square is Kim Il-sung Square, which is where military parades are held for national holidays. It is the "kilometer zero" of the DPRK from where all national road distances are measured. It is similar in form and design to the Tiananmen Square in Beijing and is used for the same purposes, but it is architecturally more refined with its dramatic riverside setting. The biggest building of the square is the Great People's Study House which houses 30 million books and was built as the "center for the project of intellectualizing the whole of society and a sanctuary of learning for the entire people." The Juche Tower across the river from the square rivals the Washington Monument. The Juche Tower measures 558 feet/170 m while the Washington Monument measures 555 feet/169 m. It opened in 1982 to commemorate Kim Il-sung's 70th birthday. It contains 25,550 blocks, one block for each day of my grandpa's life up until that point. And it serves as the backdrop for holiday firework shows. If Pyongyang, a city that rose from the ashes of conflict in the 1950s, that was destroyed by US air raids and had to be rebuilt from scratch, can become an ideal place to live without a car, then American suburbs have a chance too!

Change is very much possible in the suburbs! In Long Island's case, the LIRR has been a big reason why many historically moved to Long Island, and it's now one of the most populated islands in the Americas! And yet, Long Island has become so car-centric despite the LIRR thanks to Robert Moses planning (like adding low bridges on his parkways to discourage poor and lower-middle class families from taking transit from visiting state parks). In 1908, the former Long Island Motor Parkway, privately built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II, was the first highway in the United States built exclusively for cars. The Vanderbilt family financed the road to host safer auto-races and to encourage the public to use cars. And as mentioned, Long Island is also where the first Levittown was built in 1947 (initially with 2,000 homes but had over 17,000 homes by 1951). While Nassau County has been unwilling to densify housing around train stations or improve upon the transit options in the county, Suffolk County on the other hand has been open. Former Democrat Suffolk county executive Steve Bellone (executive from 2012 to 2023) engaged with the youth and understood that people wanted affordable, walkable, bike-friendly communities with easy access to transit, that LI's car dependency was bad for the local environment, and the youth were leaving LI in droves because it's too expensive to live on the island, and something needed to change. They also wanted to address north-south transit corridors between the North and South Shores, which LI lacked. Let's say I'd want to go from Patchogue on the South Shore to Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore. If I did that during rush-hour, then it'd be easy if the Montauk Branch train uses the Central Branch and stops at Hicksville, where I can then change to a Huntington-bound train to Cold Spring Harbor. But for every other time of the day, then I'd have to go all the way to Jamaica in Queens, just to back track and take a Huntington-bound train back east. So it's up to NICE of Nassau County or SCT of Suffolk County to fill in the gaps of the LIRR, and for North Shore-South Shore travel, not many NICE nor SCT routes actually go between the two shores, usually just stopping somewhere in between. But one that does, SCT's 1 between Amityville LIRR on the South Shore and Halesite on the North Shore which also stops at Huntington LIRR and Farmingdale State College, is one of SCT's busiest routes! So to address a lack of quality affordable rental housing, a lack of that type of housing in environments in which young people want to live (like walkable downtowns), high costs of living, auto-centric transportation system with limited north-south mobility, and a scarcity of high paying jobs, Suffolk County launched the Connect Long Island plan under former Democrat county executive Steve Bellone (who was executive from 2012 to 2023) to promote transit-oriented development, build a modern transportation system and support sustainable growth. Besides TOD projects (like at Riverhead, Patchogue, Wyandanch, and Ronkonkoma; the Ronkonkoma TOD includes a new airport terminal, convention center, and life sciences hub on top of housing), relocating Yaphank station to East Yaphank to serve the important Brookhaven National Laboratory, building a second track on the Ronkonkoma Branch from Farmingdale to Ronkonkoma, improving hiking and biking networks, and introducing Bethpage Ride bikeshare in 2019 (which Patchogue, Babylon, Gilgo Beach, Lindenhurst, Huntington, the Hamptons, and Riverhead all participate in bikeshare), the plan also included redesigning the bus network, making many new routes with most routes having 30-minute headways and timed connections. One of the routes kept was of course the 1. And to improve north-south corridors, part of the plan is studying BRT, specifically along Route 110 between Huntington and Amityville (the 1's route; which will also serve new TOD in East Farmingdale to coincide with the reopening of Republic station), along the Sagtikos Parkway from Babylon to Kings Park (which includes Suffolk County Community College’s Grant Campus in Brentwood, Kings Park LIRR, Heartland Town Square TOD in Brentwood, and Tanger Outlets), and along Nicolls Road from Patchogue to Stony Brook (serving Stony Brook University, Suffolk County Community College’s Ammerman Campus, St. Joseph's College, Ronkonkoma LIRR, and LI MacArthur Airport).

Apparently, 5 Points will be remodeled. The problem with MARTA rail service from the outset was its radial pattern. In the very early 1970's people still commented to downtown Atlanta. Not the case anymore. Only Fulton and DeKalb voted for and implemented the one cent MARTA tax from the beginning. DUE TO RACISM, let's get that out of the way, Cobb and Gwinnett counties did not want MARTA rail invading their white suburbs and bringing in the wrong sort of people. 50 years, the region is gridlocked. Go to the parking lot of the Doraville MARTA station and see what counties are on the licenses plates parked there. Gwinnett. MARTA receives little or no financial help from the state or has not historically. MARTA also needs MAJOR help as the system has deteriorated over the decades. Public transport in the United States for the most part is always underfunded since the POOR PEOPLE ride it. There are many other reasons why we can't have nice things in the United States. The bloated military budget hogs of the majority of the funds. When I lived in Atlanta, would only take MARTA from Brookhaven to the airport. That generally was wonderful especially crossing over I-85 just before entering/exiting the tunnel and seeing all the people sitting in their cars. Here in Las Vegas many years later, we have no real public transportation some bus service but I drive a Porsche and other decent cars. We are also a tiny metro area compared to Atlanta, just over two million with Atlanta metro region at six million. They need to run MARTA rail all the way to Alpharetta and beyond just short of the border with Forsyth County. As for Cobb and Gwinnett, F-EM as they in the past voted against MARTA on several occasions over the decades.

hi nathan- thank you so much for shedding light on the MSPLOST initiative! it was great to see sam in this video too; he actually introduced me to the referendum and has been at the forefront of public transit (and sustainable development) advocacy. we’ve been going strong here in kennesaw and working towards getting students invested and eager to vote for public transit here this november! also, i gotta say thanks again for the mattress and bedframe, i finally assembled it and its been great. no missing pieces, just like how you never miss with these videos

As someone who lives in Gwinnett to get to downtown in no traffic it takes about 30 minutes or so but when it is the work day it can easily take one and a half hours with no crashes or anything in the morning just congestion everywhere on i85 south that just does not seem to be addressed, then there is northbound in the afternoon sense trucks have to take i285 to bypass Atlanta they have to merge onto i85 northbound in a very short distance on top of the normal traffic in the afternoon. What would fix this? Oh I don’t know how about a train that goes into the city… oh wait right “that will cause the poor to come into our rich county” -Gwinnett county transit officials

I’ll happily take the car of anyone looking to join the Marta club. It’s so awesome not having access to certain parts of the state, having a 30 min trip by car take 90 mins by bus (if it shows up) and having to deal with Marta stations being a replacement for asylums.

Midtown or Buckhead is where the action is.

Awh I wish I saw this before I voted earlier :( I had the people around me convinced me that cobb will never ever allocate the necessary resources for public transportation and that I should just save my money. Wish I was more optimistic that day, I was back and forth up until I had to print out the paper :((

"A developed country is not where the poor can afford cars/motorbikes, it's where everyone including the rich like to use public transport." "A developed country is not where poor families can afford single-family homes far away, it's where everyone can live near city centers affordably."

As a Mariettan (I guess that’s how you say it) this video was a cool find.

I live in midtown and honestly, Atlanta has shifted from tourism focused to resident focused by developing midtown into an actually enjoyable space

This is a wonderful plan but like almost all transit plans, it’s missing rail. BRT isn’t a long-term solution as a main transit mode. MARTA should be extended into Cobb or at least commuter rail to MARTA or Downtown should also be considered if crime is an issue. It would also be nice to see some more suburban transit connections in this area.

My family came to the Americas as colonialists. Our American dream has always been to own a massive amount of land and have our own large manor house on it for our own family, similar to those found in our land of origin, England. The little house with a yard and the white picket fence were the dream of impoverished latecomers to America.

All public transit in the US is funded through taxes. All public transit service in the US is abysmal. Why do people still believe tax funding is a viable avenue to solve problems?

I would love to see the crime rate statistics in areas that have buses and areas that don't. I think thats why people who are concerned about crime and safety are against it.

"post-segregation America," he says. Ha!

There didn't used to be suburbs, and many old areas were turned into them. Where I'm at they literally moved the historic train station away from the road that used to be the railway. I imagine what it could be like if we went back to having railways like that. Looking at the issue, one has to ask if people are willing to pay to change transit here as an investment for posterity which seldom few seem to think of. There's many other social issues at play though that make it unlikely for them to stop the ponzi scheme anytime soon though. People will be sunk cost fallacy until the bailout.