Comments on: “MARTA’s Running Just Fine”

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:05:45 +0000

DEM, it’s that old argument about journalism that just because you give two sides a chance to comment, it doesn’t mean it’s a thorough and well-vetted article.

I guess that it’s asking too much that when Chambers makes a rather ridiculous comment about MARTA being “fine”, that the AJC challenge her on that statement and at least ask her “what about the $25 million in stimulus?” as opposed to just letting her rant, printing it, and also casually mentioning the fed bailout to readers as a side note. That seems more along the lines of what a blog would do…not a newspaper.

I never said the article was an anti-MARTA screed.

By: DEM

DEM — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:23:08 +0000

You are being very unfair to this article. First, it does mention the federal bailout — it’s hard to miss. Second, Bev SCott gets a few paragraphs to rebut Chambers. This isn’t even close to a one-sided anti-MARTA screed.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:18:17 +0000

Once again, since MARTA gets zero state funding, and is unique among large public transportation systems in that regard, why is the state and Ms Chambers meddling in its affairs anyway?

By: Joeventures

Joeventures — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:23:11 +0000

Jill Chambers crying wolf is, itself, a very bad case of crying wolf. How many more people need to be without access to transit, just so she can satisfy her own ego?