Atlanta train station. 1909 and 2025

[Remote]

Atlanta's population in 1909 was around 155,000 people. It's 510,000 today.

But let y'all tell it, trains could never work in the south because everything is too spread out.

 

[Canada Goose]

Florida has Brightline train between Miami and Orlando and it's VERY popular.... it's a new service that was introduced a couple years ago.


Amtrak new service between New Orleans and Baton Rouge might start soon.

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[Bigblackted4]

Florida has Brightline train between Miami and Orlando and it's VERY popular.... it's a new service that was introduced a couple years ago.


Amtrak new service between New Orleans and Baton Rouge might start soon.

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Wish that Brightline could come up to Atlanta or all the way to Charlotte

 

[RaspberryFitted]

Atlanta’s nickname was Terminus for its robust railroad infrastructure

 

[Canada Goose]

Wish that Brightline could come up to Atlanta or all the way to Charlotte

I would imagine Brightline would like to extend to Tampa first before considering any city north of FL. But an rail service between ATL and Charlotte only probably could work. If the departures are done during reasonable hours. There already is an Amtrak train between ATL and Charlotte but the departures are in the middle of the night and it's common for that specific Amtrak train to be late. I think a couple of passenger train round trips between ATL and Charlotte could be an success

 

[Bigblackted4]

I would imagine Brightline would like to extend to Tampa first before considering any city north of FL. But a rail service between ATL and Charlotte only probably could work. If the departures are done during reasonable hours. There already is an Amtrak train between ATL and Charlotte but the departures are in the middle of the night and it's common for that specific Amtrak train to be late. I think a couple of passenger train round trips between ATL and Charlotte could be an success

If the train was faster it would make sense too

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

And that station is full of gays

 

[MajesticLion]

But let y'all tell it, trains could never work in the south because everything is too spread out.

Who says this?

 

[Harry Sax]

Wish that Brightline could come up to Atlanta or all the way to Charlotte

No you don’t

Brightline out here catching bodies every week

And I really don’t understand how, I’ve been at the tracks when it passed, it literally goes by in under 10 seconds

 

[Remote]

Who says this?

Everybody on the coli whenever @bnew or myself make a thread about how car dependent America is....and how we could learn a lot from cities in Europe or Asia.

We are bombarded with the same nonsense.

"It could never work here"
"This country is too spread out"
"Only makes sense in biggest cities"
"Who wants to ride on a train with these crazies next to you"
"It's too expensive!"

 

[Mike Nasty]

Everybody on the coli whenever @bnew or myself make a thread about how car dependent America is....and how we could learn a lot from cities in Europe or Asia.

We are bombarded with the same nonsense.

"It could never work here"
"This country is too spread out"
"Only makes sense in biggest cities"
"Who wants to ride on a train with these crazies next to you"
"It's too expensive!"

We're so spread out we'd still need a car to get to the train station

 

[Remote]

We're so spread out we'd still need a car to get to the train station

"We shouldn't have elevators because we'd still need to walk to the lobby"

 

[Mike Nasty]

"We shouldn't have elevators because we'd still need to walk to the lobby"

"why don't we have an extensive passenger rail network countries the size of Georgia?"

 

[concise]

We're so spread out we'd still need a car to get to the train station

Do you ever wonder how people got to the train stations before everyone had a car?

or how 50k people filled the Roman Colosseum or 100k filled the Circus Maximus?

 

[LuuqMaan]

Atlanta's population in 1909 was around 155,000 people. It's 510,000 today.

Atlanta has less people than Leeds, here in UK?