Atlanta train station. 1909 and 2025

[concise]

Who says this?

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

Didn't even need 1 page.

 

[Mike Nasty]

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?

You're trying to be sassy but you're making my point. No one was walking 10-20 miles to a train station or a colosseum.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Atlanta’s nickname was Terminus for its robust railroad infrastructure

Now the nickname should be break lights

 

[Mike Nasty]

"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!"

Don't forget to mention the actual reason:
Update until recently the freight carriers which own the actual right of way wanted nothing to do with passenger rail service!!!!!

 

[Bigblackted4]

Atlanta has less people than Leeds, here in UK?

It has some of the biggest suburban counties. The county east has 760,000 people, the county north east has 960,000, the county south has 300,000 and the county west and north west has 780,000 they all touch the county in which Atlanta is in.

 

[Canada Goose]

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

Are you talking about the Brightline trains crashing into cars at grade crossings? If so that is NOT Brightline fault, it's the person driving their car fault for being inpatient and trying to driving around the pole and not making it across in time.


All railroads with grade crossings in the U.S have this problem with trains crashing into cars. It even happened a couple of times in the NY suburbs.

 

[concise]

It has some of the biggest suburban counties. The county east has 760,000 people, the county north east has 960,000, the county south has 300,000 and the county west and north west has 780,000 they all touch the county in which Atlanta is in.

And most of them exploded during the Great American Suburban retreat from the 1950s to the 1980s, right?

 

[Harry Sax]

Are you talking about the Brightline trains crashing into cars at grade crossings? If so that is NOT Brightline fault, it's the person driving their car fault for being inpatient and trying to driving around the pole and not making it across in time.


All railroads with grade crossings in the U.S have this problem with trains crashing into cars. It even happened a couple of times in the NY suburbs.

Of course not

I said that shyt is cursed

Trains have been coming thru on the same tracks for forever…never heard of this many train accidents…one time it was 2 in the same week, at the same exact spot

The regular train comes, I’ve been stuck in line for up to 10 minutes.. the Brightline comes thru, the gates go down and about 30 seconds later the train comes, passes by in like 5 seconds…the whole process takes under a minute…are people that stupid?

 

[Robbie3000]

I don’t have time to look for the pictures, but you can find pics from my around that time with Atlanta, Houston and other southern cities looking like midtown Manhattan..

 

[MajesticLion]

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!"

Oh, them. Filtering out wilful stupidity is reflexive at this point.



It absolutely can work in the US because there's so much space to work with. Anyone saying otherwise is either lying or a parrot for what they were told as children.

 

[Bigblackted4]

And most of them exploded during the Great American Suburban retreat from the 1950s to the 1980s, right?

Actually no, this city has been booming the last 30 years