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Priorities and distractions
The AJC breathlessly reported that BRN supporters recently turned up at a MARTA Board meeting to denounce the board’s decision to cancel the Eastside Beltline streetcar.
How vast was this protest? A whopping 20 speakers, or 0.0037% of the city’s population, who proceeded to yell at MARTA Board members and accuse them of selling out to Big Oil, a group that I’m sure was just in a panic about a two-mile-long streetcar extension.
District 11 election – Ingram & Martin on transit
Toni Bell Ingram and Wayne Martin, candidates for an open City Council seat representing southwest Atlanta shared their positions on transit and mobility by participating in Better Atlanta Transit’s questionnaire on the topic.