North Fulton residents, businesses ready for transit vote
Regarding “Fulton pushing for transit vote, but time is short” (Metro, April 24), as a person who lived 24 years in Johns Creek, owns an Alpharetta business and has always paid her taxes for unutilized MARTA services, I am ready to vote “hell yes” for transit on Ga. 400 that will bring North Fulton into the 21st century. It would neither be fair nor democratic for the Johns Creek City Council, representing only 14 percent of North Fulton residents, to essentially block a vote of their residents and everyone else in North Fulton. Fulton County has provided the ridership numbers and other data to justify the critical need. It is a no-brainer to put the matter on the November ballot. Please do not let this opportunity – for both commuters and North Fulton businesses – pass us by. This is important to do before Gwinnett and Cobb inevitably vote to be included in the new ATL regional transit system. Now is the time that North Fulton residents start getting value for their years of transit funding investment. This is not only a quality of life issue. This is an economic and workforce development imperative.
JULIE ISON HALEY, ALPHARETTA
Bookman’s liberal fiction belongs on features page
Jay Bookman’s “satire” column about President Trump shooting attorney Michael Avenatti (“What if Trump really shot someone on Fifth Avenue?” Opinion, April 25) was beyond amazing and despicable. Why isn’t Mr. Bookman put in the Living section of your paper as a writer of fiction? He apparently is left to writing “what if…” stories. I am reminded of high school, when my buddies and I would engage in mindless goofy humor of “what ifs” regarding teachers, girls, etc. Of course, it takes little mental talent to make things up that are ridiculous or shocking or descriptive of something that will never happen. What if someone didn’t pay attention to the title of his column, and actually believed what they were reading?
PHIL GUY, LILBURN
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