I really hope MARTA does a expansion soon. So many new suburbs going up around Atlanta and the traffic is HORRID. I love how MARTA also uses the same 3rd rail covers like BARTs.
@@BL4CKKN1GHT Exactly! A couple of years back the residents in South Fulton voted for a sales tax increase where Marta promised to extend heavy rail into the area. But at the last minute, Marta decided to opt for bus service.
@@BabyBang17datruth I didn’t know there was heavy rail proposal. From what I’ve seen, the whole sales tax was for busses and light rail within the city. Either way it shows marta is inept and incompetent. And that’s on top of them taking funds from the taxes to put towards busses. But at least Atlanta city council is questioning marta about their actions. Someone from DC or the MTA needs to come down and run marta
It's not going to happen. Last station was opened more than 20 years ago. Ridership is worse now than 20 years ago, sadly. This is true for most systems around the country.
These sound absolutely amazing with many elements of these cars found in other transit systems. Between old school MITRAC, the look of WMATA Rolling Stock and what appears to be the same door motors as the R-68 these are quite an experience yet oddly familiar. I must take a trip down there again before the new Stadler cars become commonplace.
It feels so weird to see these as 2-car consists when I'm so used to WMATAs 6 to 8 cars, even though the legacy WMATA trains were designed to run in a similar fashion if they had wanted to.
@@gfujigo Actually they're specifically for the Proctor Creek Branch (Bankhead Station) as this was the only station in the system built for 2 car service (this is in the works to be changed to a 6 car length platform, to be able to run the new rail cars that will arrive in 2025). The rest of the system is designed for 8 car service but 6 is the length MARTA has ran in many recent years.
I'm from the DMV area, and we haven't had 2 car trains running in service since at least 1999--4 car trains ran up until about 2007/2008! It's weird seeing 2 car trains anywhere now--especially with almost every major every city growing in population!
I just love how distinct Japanese propulsion systems sound. Doesn’t matter which company, in which city or even which country, you’ll know it when you hear it. EDIT: it’s not Japanese, it’s Canadian - specifically Bombardier
Building out the full potential of the current rail lines is a better first step. The recent proposal to add 4 new stations on the existing lines would be a real catalyst for development in the areas around them where there isn't much already. The greatest potential for that is around the proposed stations on the east and west lines.
I think the green line is the shortest MARTA Line, shortest car length and distance running along the east-west corridor, only one station to have for the green line without the blue line.
So I am visiting Atlanta and when I flew in on Sunday and rode the subway I was in Awe because I loved riding the R142A,R143 in New York I came in from Boston and the Type 8 street cars also have the same propulsion
@@EricTheKing I’m all my times in NY, I only rode the R142As/R188 in the A Division. I don’t remember riding the R143s. I don’t like the Alstom propulsion. The Siemens is great on the Kawasaki cars.
Just curious as to when you visited Atlanta. My wife & I went to Atlanta in 2015 for a Clean Show and stayed at the Airport Motel 6. We rode the trains to sight-see. As usual, I photograph trains, etc. On the way in, I photoed through the door to the front and the "driver"(attendant) went ballistic that I wasn't allowed to do that. I also was confronted by a "guard" while taking photos of the beautiful facade in the main station that had been saved from a previous building saying I couldn't photograph in the station. On the same day, I saw a piece on the local news that had video of trains and passengers entering and leaving trains at that station where you could recognize them, and my photography did not. Go figure. There is NOTHING about MARTA that can not be had off-the-shelf if you can afford it and nothing is a security risk. The only thing that is not off-the-shelf is the software to operate the system.
I live in the area. Not sure what you’re talking about. The N-S line goes from Five Points to the Airport in 6 stops and 15 min. What “express” service would you like?
@@neilaxelrod5872 The problem is there was no planning for future express service, no third tracks. An express from the ends of the N/S lines to 5 points would be nice but it's not possible with the current track configs.
@@justmenooneelse-l7x much of the right of way was former RR right of way. The line from North Springs uses the 400 median. You know all this. And Atlanta isn’t NYC. There isn’t the operating funding or ridership demand for “express” services.
mf they have the same propulsion that's why they sound the same stop talking about this not every propulsion is exclusive to the mta like the other guy said
I have lived in Atlanta for 33 years and still wonder what was the purpose of this 2 car line? Clearly it was supposed to be more than this and stuff went south at some point. Ridership has always been pretty low but honestly, it seems like a waste. Now Gwinnett county needed Marta but got voted down 🤷🏾♂️
The green line when first planned was actually supposed to end at perry homes. Another use for the green line (if people didn’t have their heads in their a$$es) would’ve been the tucker north dekalb line. On the planning, it would’ve just been a blue line branch off. But honestly just Because of connivence it probably would’ve just been the green line.
The door's are simillar to the R46 when opening, while it's motors itself sound's like the R143/R142A/R188 but, the motor's on the 2nd stage sound's faster then our NYC Subway. which is 2 second's long.
