Eye on the Street

Decatur Metro | March 26, 2013

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West Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Gwyneth)

 

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14 Responses to “Eye on the Street”

  1. Bulldog says:
    March 26, 2013 at 11:44 am

    They must have gotten Keanu and all the passengers off.

  2. Ira in East Lake says:
    March 26, 2013 at 11:47 am

    Is this a regular part of the route? Looks like fun.

  3. Michael says:
    March 26, 2013 at 12:30 pm

    This picture is artfully cropped, although it had me going for a while. Perhaps if MARTA buses could pop wheelies, we would get more peeps on them…

  4. JC says:
    March 26, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    Now how awesome would it be if MARTA installed hydralics on all their buses?

    • Michael says:
      March 26, 2013 at 12:38 pm

      The cool MARTA buses were the extra-long ones with a hinge in the middle they used to have. If you were sitting in the back, you would actually lose sight of the driver during a turn…

      • smalltowngal says:
        March 26, 2013 at 5:03 pm

        I remember that experience, kind of cool. I also remember what it was like to be sitting at a stoplight in a compact car when that bus came around the corner, convinced the bus driver had temporarily lost sight of the back half of the bus.

  5. Rick Julian says:
    March 26, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    is your bus on a tow truck, or are you just happy to see me?

  6. Russ says:
    March 26, 2013 at 12:52 pm

    Gin and juice

  7. LovesDogsDecatur says:
    March 26, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    This must be the route #2 bus … It was always breaking down somewhere.

  8. Dr B says:
    March 26, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Two comments.

    I was sitting with the photographer at Taco Mac when we looked out the window and saw this. We all did a double-take when we saw the bus from where we were sitting next to the window, so the cropping accurately represents what we saw!

    As far as the #2 breakdown comment above, I am a somewhat regular rider of the #2 bus (1-4 days/week). I have not experienced it breaking down. However, twice in the last 6 months I have experienced the bus flying down Ponce towards Decatur and the driver missed the “veer-right” to stay on Ponce and continued on Scott.

    When the entire bus starts screaming, the driver knows they have gone the wrong way!

    Both times, the driver did a scary 3+ point turn during rush hour at Parkwood to get back to Ponce.

  9. Heather says:
    March 27, 2013 at 7:16 am

    Another uplifting photo from Decatur Metro.

  10. Parker Cross says:
    March 27, 2013 at 11:18 am

    Chitty Chitty Bus Bus