Peach Pass Express Lanes.

[charlie]

This thread makes me picture dM rollin deep in Tyler's ambahlance carpoolin their asses off.

[icantdrift]

I guess I'm that 0.01% that like it, because I have a peach pass and it only costs me $1.25 to get use that lane all the way from 285 to the end up 85N and I get to drive past all the idiots driving at 60 in the fast lanes forming rolling road blocks.

And if you're not carpooling, you wouldnt be able to use an HOV/HOT lane anyway so no real loss there. I guess it sucks if you are carpooling and want to use that lane. Also if you know you're gonna have 3 people at least in your carpool all the time, then you can have the toll thing set as continuously "free" instead of having to do it each time you're leaving the house.

Its like the bus lanes in the UK, there arent that many of them, but where there are some, everyone that's not using them are pissed at them being there.

Personally, I down with paying for the convenience of bypassing all the traffic.

Also like Cody, I go up 85N in the morning so it's not a huge bonus but its significant enough that it takes a good number of minutes off my commute, and less traffic stress to boot.

I can only imagine that if you went and got a peach pass so you can fly down 85S in the mornings, that'd be worth it.

You're rolling in the cheaper direction. It changes as they feel like it and it's god awful expensive in the morning heading south. I pay less to run through the super expensive tunnel system in Boston than they're charging down here to run in the left lane for 5 miles.

[down_shift]

...but I know they probably invested millions into this lane, and the technology that governs it. So I'm sure it is here to stay.

The $60 million budget for the road project includes funding for four state troopers to patrol the lanes full time for violators.

[Generz]

There is no way that MARTA could ever be successful, viable, or efficient with the way and the people that currently run it.

Rachel's mom worked for MARTA for over 10 years and the stories that I hear about MARTA is horrendous and makes me realize that the only reason it's still around is something that is extremely racist.

[FooSchnickens]

Well, you do know what marta stands for, right?

[andysapp]

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, you racist.

[bradystrib]

Upstanding citizens.

[FooSchnickens]

It's not racist if you hate everyone.

[andysapp]

I like that train.

[Lightning]

now I see what y'all were talkin about. This thing SUCKS!!! Geezus.