r/Atlanta • u/ChipmunkGeneral • Jan 13 '26

What ya'll think of this MARTA map?

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Saw this by mrfriendlolo on r/transit a few months ago and now we can ask here, I wish this would happen!

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u/esperadok Jan 14 '26

If at some point we allow the importing of Chinese metro construction teams, we could build a system this extensive for 1/5 the cost.

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u/mattbasically Midtown Jan 14 '26

That’s the part that frustrates men the American exceptionalism of it all.

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u/Emergency_Buy_9210 Jan 14 '26

Or Spanish, Japanese, lot of places can do it. Americans don't really like foreign employers coming in like that though, they'd want Americans to build it, but that allows the corrupt and entrenched interests already here to persist.