MARTA fights negative perceptions
I am encouraged by the recent MARTA columns, “MARTA’S ground game for growth” and “Walking to school can ease traffic, improve health” (Opinion, Aug. 4). My husband and I have taken MARTA from the Doraville station to the airport for 20-plus years, averaging at least five round trips per year. However, among suburbanites, we have sadly been in the minority. To listen to many of my fellow suburbanites, it would be anathema to take MARTA.
MARTA Chairman Robbie Ashe and his team are going to have to campaign vigorously to change such reactionary mindsets and negative misconceptions about MARTA. Kudos also to Mr. Joiner’s ideas for more children walking and using mass transportation to get to school. Here in Johns Creek, two schools are less than 1/4 mile away from my subdivision, yet there is massive gridlock when SUV mommies ferry the kids the equivalent of five city blocks or less.
SALPI ADROUNY, JOHNS CREEK
Draw NAACP in cahoots with ISIS
May one assume, for the sake of balance, that Mr. Luckovich will follow up his Nazi-inspired “Heritage, Not Hate” editorial cartoon (Opinion, Aug. 4) with one depicting the NAACP leadership taking bids from the Taliban and ISIS for the demolition of Stone Mountain? There is no question Mr. Luckovich is blessed with keen satirical gifts and would execute the idea perfectly.
REGINALD ABBOTT, LITHONIA
Your pro-Clinton bias is showing
I was reading your digital article about the Princeton Review ranking Georgia colleges and universities. I noticed you chose to use a picture of Hillary Clinton speaking at Agnes Scott College, which was selected 16th best in the Quality of Life category. Given the longstanding reputation of the AJC as a very liberal news source, it comes as no surprise you would choose this picture of Clinton to depict “good quality of life,” particularly in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
RUSS PYSELL, ATLANTA
Birth control means fewer abortions
If abortion is made illegal, the result will be to drive it underground where sanitary conditions are much less likely. If a girl is pregnant from her father or brother, she most likely will seek an abortion even if it entails going to another state or country where abortion is legal. But certainly the necessity of abortion should be reduced as much as possible. Methods of birth control should be made free to anyone who asks. Sex education should be available for all young people by the time of puberty. But strangely, the information and devices needed to thwart abortions are blocked by the very groups who are most against abortion. This is hypocrisy of the highest order. If we want to reduce abortions, we must provide the clear means of doing so.
DONALD E. GALLUP, ATLANTA
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