http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/?cxntfid=blogs_commutants We're forsaking our cars (mostly) and exploring different ways to get to the office: rail, bus, cycling and walking. en-us jbookman@ajc.com 2008-07-09T14:22:07-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 We're forsaking our cars (mostly) and exploring different ways to get to the office: rail, bus, cycling and walking. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2008/07/09/in_his_column_t.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants In his column today, Leonard Pitts bemoans the shamelessness of those who accuse John McCain of betraying our country when, under extreme torture 40 years ago, he read a North Vietnamese propaganda statement in front of television cameras: “Maybe I... 5138203@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ 2008-07-09T14:22:07-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/11/the_15second_hu.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants Walking slows the whole world down. You see and learn things that you can’t see and learn in a car. At the convenience store at the corner of Collier and Peachtree, I met Mansoorali, a pleasant man from Bombay who... 29118@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Carla Caldwell 2005-11-11T12:30:22-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/11/this_marta_thin.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants A male friend, a good-hearted family guy who regularly rides MARTA offered this advice as I prepared for my first trek to work by bus this morning: “Don’t look up. Take a book. Don’t make eye contact.” I’ve read the... 29109@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Carla Caldwell 2005-11-11T11:38:21-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/11/the_6mile_walk.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants One small problem walking to work on Thursday - the six-mile return trip in the evening. By that time, I was tired and facing a less forgiving deadline. I could afford to stroll into work 30 minutes late in the... 29062@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Maureen Downey 2005-11-11T11:32:43-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/11/commuting_with.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants I normally drive my two children to pre-K and daycare and then drive to the H.E. Holmes MARTA station and catch a train to work. I ride MARTA by choice; I don’t want to deal with parking downtown, and I... 29058@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Veronica Johnson 2005-11-11T11:29:20-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/10/buses_and_train.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants Adventure week is ending. Never got around to the bus. Based on the published trip schedules and colleagues’ accounts, the trip down to Atlanta from Cobb would gobble huge chunks of time. Buses are for emergencies, for those with time... 29020@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Jim Wooten 2005-11-10T21:15:51-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/10/will_our_bosses.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants The AJC has news offices in five metro locations besides downtown. I’m working in the one in Cobb right now. It is five miles from my home, and it takes me 10 to 12 minutes to get here in rush... 29019@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Mike King 2005-11-10T21:07:49-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/10/6_miles_of_roll.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants After walking to work this morning from Decatur, I have concluded that those pedestrian signal buttons at busy intersections are traffic engineers’ idea of a wedgie. My husband says he has it on good authority — a county traffic guy... 28889@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Maureen Downey 2005-11-10T10:45:53-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/10/dont_try_this_a.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants 28883@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Cynthia Tucker 2005-11-10T09:46:41-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/09/a_long_long_wal.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants 6 a.m.: on foot in Snellville. Lots of looks: I am more than a curiosity. I am abnormal. Snellvillians are fluent in “car”; they do not speak “bus” or “train.” To become a carless commutant, however, I must walk 6.3... 28807@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Susan Gast 2005-11-09T21:42:01-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/09/at_70_she_hikes.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants Judging from the responses I’ve gotten so far, maybe MARTA should shut down and start from scratch. But then, what would Lorraine Samples do? Samples, 70, lives near me in South DeKalb. Her husband of 51 years used to drive... 28805@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Lyle V. Harris 2005-11-09T21:34:28-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/09/martas_service.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants MARTA’s growth potential is toast. That’s objective. I’ve no problems with MARTA or its train service. Train service is, in fact, far superior to my prior experience of three or four years ago. From the Holmes station on the West... 28677@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Jim Wooten 2005-11-09T11:02:14-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/09/the_bottom_line.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants I’m now convinced the hardest part of riding mass transit (other than rushing to make the last bus of the evening to east Cobb) are the seats. Seriously. Marta train seats are hardly comfortable, but the ones on the Cobb... 28674@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ David McNaughton 2005-11-09T10:36:13-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/09/pipe_down_alrea.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants Even having the most hassle-free commute you could ask for — which, in Atlanta, is kinda like having the most comfortable seat on the old Scream Machine at Six Flags — is not without its jarring moments. Take my ride... 28655@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Larry Wilkerson 2005-11-09T09:30:25-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/entries/2005/11/08/the_crow_cant_g.html?cxntfid=blogs_commutants Plotting out my 20-mile commute set me to thinking of Billy in “The Family Circus.” His mom sends him on an errand, and the cartoon traces Billy’s steps with a dotted line that covers most of the panel before he’s... 28557@http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/transitweek/ Kevin Braun 2005-11-08T20:44:22-05:00