Comments on: Decatur’s Success is No Accident http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/11/decatur%e2%80%99s-success-is-no-accident/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Bobby http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/11/decatur%e2%80%99s-success-is-no-accident/#comment-125306 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:37:06 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-125306 +1

thank you for sharing this perspective

]]> By: Karass http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/11/decatur%e2%80%99s-success-is-no-accident/#comment-125287 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:46:33 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-125287 Wow, that’s like living in NYC where the traffic noises, building rattling, cabs honking, parking by sound, sirens, trains, construction drilling, etc.are the white noise of life. Didn’t realize that many Decatur residents had to deal with that, although I’ve realized that homes up on Swanton Hill and Gateway residents have to hear the MARTA train rattle through their neighborhood before it goes underground and downtown residents have to listen to the restaurant garbage pickup in the early AM. Thanks for taking that bullet because the CSX railroad tracks are enough of a divider, hazard, and annoyance without having MARTA do that too.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/11/decatur%e2%80%99s-success-is-no-accident/#comment-125286 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:38:01 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-125286 For several years MARTA used to shake all the houses on the street. China in the cabinets would rattle every 11 minutes or whatever the timing was. After a concerted neighborhood outcry, they slowed the trains to their designated speed — or so I imagine– the rattling went away. That ’twas the bullet.

]]> By: Susan http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/11/decatur%e2%80%99s-success-is-no-accident/#comment-125210 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:16:45 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-125210 To Bruce: MARTA came in in 1979 or so, so if you moved in in 1988, you should have known MARTA was going to run under your house. I’m not sure where you “took a bullet.” But yes, it did take a long while & a good deal of re-construction to create the current Decatur Square/MARTA Plaza. It’s a shame MARTA didn’t go completely underground. Yes, it was much less expensive to use the existing CSX railways, but many neighborhoods were divided to a much greater extent, and it is that division that still has the rest of the metro area wary of further subway or even trolley-like expansion. Kudos to Decatur’s citizens for push to go underground!

]]> By: Bruce http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/11/decatur%e2%80%99s-success-is-no-accident/#comment-125195 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:12:13 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-125195 All right, I’ll give you that one… but as a result, a) marta practically runs under our house, so we took a bullet for the team, and b) the above-grade “plaza” led to years of decay before the tide finally turned. In 1988 people were sleeping in urine where Raging Burrito now stands. Cakes & Ale marks the glorious transformation.

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