Gwinnett people, if you haven't voted then VOTE TODAY for MARTA expansion. The EV demographics definitely favored those who oppose it so every single damn vote is going to count. Make sure your friends have voted too.
Voting today? Did you vote in the December runoff also on the day of? Curious to how turnout is affected today by the long early voting period. I voted the first week in Lawrenceville and it was packed, but that was to be expected since it was the only location open. It's going to be close either way unless turnout today surpasses the runoff in December (Gwinnett was still blue but only by like 50.5% with something like 103k votes cast).
the felonious people that orchestrated moving this referendum off the november ballot, and the $500k of taxpayer money it cost for that decision, should be locked up.
It didn't pass. I just emailed every Republican board commissioner to let them know that any growing business has no reason to stay here if they refuse to take public transit seriously (see NCR leaving). Fuck boomers so much, most selfish disgusting generation this country has produced.
Fran Tarkenton Don't know if you saw this, but it sounds like this isn't thankfully dead. One of the big transportation gurus in Atlanta is speculating that Nash may lose her seat with a huge D turnout in 2020 and that she might try to salvage her reputation by putting up another referendum on the November 2020 ballot.
Or just plain racism Criminals from college park gonna ride the train, rob your house, then ride back home on the train with your couch.
When the ajc interviewed a 76 year old who turned out to vote against it, that was a sign that's what it's about. That old bastard didn't realize how many people live in Gwinnett, only bought into the raising taxes crap. Nash should lose her seat for going along with moving it to March, and Newton can die in a fire for being such a bastard about it.
Yea Im not sure how the whole referendum process works but a 2020 wave could change the Gwinnett political dynamic forever. I want to say the referendum will need to be green-lit through the State level, and not sure they'd allow it on same ballot as Kemp's reelection in 2022. Will be interesting. Just so many levels of mad that a 45% white county has a 65% white electorate.
Like others have said, racism, BS about taxes (Gwinnett is tied for the lowest sales tax by county in Georgia and a 1% increase would have brought it to about average), people actually complaining it wasn't good enough even though that would have costed a lot more money thereby causing it to more than likely fail than already. The extremely low turnout sunk this, we saw fewer people vote than who voted in the December runoff. Gwinnett had over 300k votes in November, ~103k in December, and less than 100k yesterday.
I don't believe so unless I'm mistaken, I thought was the entire doing of the County's Board of Commissioners from letting it be vote on as well as the date.
Gwinnexico is so stupid. Marta should hit every single suburb within 25-30 miles from downtown. We're so far behind comparatively speaking.
This was a lot of what I saw reading Facebook comments this morning. The old tactic of "if there's no 100% perfect solution we should just do nothing." Also a lot of people saying "I'm not gonna pay for something I won't use!!!!" And "public transportation is dirty." And "Atlanta bureaucrats are corrupt"
I'd seriously love to punch every single one of these voters in the face who used the excuse that it needs to not take so long. It was TWNETY-NINE YEARS AGO when Gwinnett last voted on a referendum, fuck you you stupid knuckle-dragging inbred morons, any supposed decrease in construction time will be offset by having to wait longer to vote again.
LOL Gwinnett. Also LOL having this vote in March instead of November because of crossover turnout for MARTA and statewide elections It is times like these are when I'm glad I live in a well run, efficient and ethical county like DeKalb
Racism + "I won't use it so why should I pay for it" are probably the two biggest reasons. With that said, it's crazy this is being decided in March and not November
That last one is still true though. I don't like when measures try to add in more bus routes instead of rail, which they have tried and failed on previously. Most of the sections of Gwinnett closer to the city voted for the measure though. https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/Gwinnett/94961/Web02.225391/#/cid/10
They're adding more rapid transit routes because they know they have to sell access that will be available quicker than 20 years from now.
I love the "I won't use it so why should I pay for it" argument because it shows the absolute absence of critical thinking skills
Its a shame MARTA can't run on time and they won't #fire@ceomarta. The people wont tax themselves to give this clown extra money to run a train system that can't be reliable. Just look at their twitter @martaservice such crap.
I became a daily rider back in December and I haven’t experienced as many delays as others claim they have. The derailment in February was bad, but most of the time it’s someone pushing someone/jumping in front of the tracks. I’m also only going from north ave to Lenox but Marta is almost always reliable.
It doesn't become an attractive alternative until it can be relied upon. If they can run it reliably, then it might have a shot not only for the gwinetians but also the regular city.
Man you're full of shit. I ride it daily. I get on the train every fucking day at the exact same time, going to work and coming home. It is literally on time every fucking day. Are there random delays once every other week? Yeah, but it's not much different than there is a big accident twice a month and it took an extra 10 minutes
I refuse to ride that unreliable garbage ass train on my 15 mile commute because of the constant 15 minute delays. Here, I’ll sit in this 2 hour traffic jam because a single drop of water fell from the sky.