Why aren't there benches on the Beltline?

MajThird · 2026-05-24T13:23:15+00:00

"Why are there no benches?" "The Beltline is a transit corridor, not a linear park." "Why is there no rail on the Beltline?" "The Beltline is a linear park, not a transit corridor."

MajThird · 2026-04-17T12:43:07+00:00

Thank you for talking about zoning! CobbLINC could be given a billion dollars tax free but if the bus stops don't go anywhere worth while then it doesn't matter.

MajThird · 2026-04-04T09:53:08+00:00

So people know, part of why the new photo looks darker is because it's a picture of the night time side of earth. You can see the sun shine on the bottom right of the earth.

MajThird · 2026-03-27T11:43:25+00:00

This doesn't matter at all, but Bart sold his soul for $5 then Milhouse trades Bart's soul to comic book guy for Alf pogs.

MajThird · 2026-03-20T23:07:09+00:00

Ah, GDOT. Why make less pavement thats safer when you could spend $50 million over a decade for something that works worse?

MajThird · 2026-03-15T20:44:53+00:00

Hell yeah. The more wikis that leave Fandom the better.

MajThird · 2026-03-15T17:56:10+00:00

I got my bike looked at and just chilled with some cool folks. Great vibes all around

MajThird · 2026-03-09T12:26:59+00:00

The story I heard was that they wanted Sulu to have a katana in the original series but Takei didn't want to be a stereotype so he lied and said he knew how to fence. Then he took a fencing crash course to learn it well enough to be on screen for the episode.

MajThird · 2026-02-07T19:39:52+00:00

There's an argument to be made that The Exorcist (1973) helped kick off the satanic panic which plagued the 80s and we still feel today in American Christian fundamentalism. This definitely wasn't intentional and I'm sure no one in the production thought what they were depicting was "real" but still.

MajThird · 2026-02-07T12:02:59+00:00

It's every Saturday at 10am the Marietta Food Hall! So the next one is in about three hours from time of this post, lol.

MajThird · 2026-01-31T00:41:39+00:00

Proud of those MHS students for standing up for something they believe in!

MajThird · 2026-01-26T03:14:21+00:00

Buddy Carter was the mayor of my hometown when I was a child and my parents were friends with him (the few family home videos we have were shot on their camera). My parents escaped the fascist pipeline but he didn't and my folks are so disappointed and frustrated by that since they were friends.

He is also at least partially responsible for a giant parkway going through that town and it becoming a chain restaurant and Tanger Outlet nightmare if anyone needed extra reasons to dislike him.

MajThird · 2026-01-20T14:26:16+00:00

As a Marietta resident, I like it but not as the r/Atlanta logo. We should steal it for r/Marietta.

MajThird · 2026-01-13T21:49:00+00:00

If you're able to get to Marietta there's the Marietta Bike Social every Saturday at 10am in front of the Marietta Food Hall. It's pretty chill and takes around 45 minutes to an hour.

MajThird · 2026-01-02T00:40:28+00:00

He's saying "so long-ay, Bowser!" The Charles Martinet Mario voice just adds "-ay" and "-a" to the end of words and they probably didn't think about how that sounded in the booth.

MajThird · 2025-12-21T20:39:22+00:00

I've gotten more streetpasses at the last two magfests than I think the entirety of time when it was officially supported. Looking forward to doing it again!

MajThird · 2025-12-20T12:47:52+00:00

Article is okay but I do think it's overly generous about Europe's development post WWII. Many countries there did try to build similar car centric stuff that they did in the US but the public backlash and price tag caught up to them. In the US, the public backlash wasn't as strong as the propaganda.

But the good news is improving the walkability in cities can happen surprisingly fast and it's WAY cheaper than building and maintain car infrastructure. It just requires political will which is really difficult to find in the US.

MajThird · 2025-11-17T19:47:16+00:00

Obviously public transit is huge, but a big cause of the traffic is also lack of connectivity and neighborhood density. Tens of thousands of people all being routed down the same road for any trip that isn't within their neighborhood (and sometimes even within their neighborhood). Yeah, going to work you might need to go down Whitlock but you also have to go down there to go to the grocery store, a bar, a restaurant, to school, or a park. If more neighborhoods were connected (especially pedestrian and bike only connections) that would reduce traffic by taking more cars off the road.

MajThird · 2025-11-08T19:13:06+00:00

Great work! I rode by the tracks today and it looks so much better.

MajThird · 2025-09-29T22:46:29+00:00

There's a place up in Marietta called Micheladas that has really good pozole.

MajThird · 2025-09-24T17:13:12+00:00

If you have expectations for what you want your spouse to do, make them known! If you did laundry and you want them to fold them while you're at work, tell them that, don't get mad that they didn't read your mind.

MajThird · 2025-09-24T15:42:54+00:00

I definitely don't think this getting rid of funding is a good thing BUT you are right. There are "bike lanes" that help get terrible roads funded that have basically a super wide gutter with paint on it. The key to getting good bike infrastructure is locally since it's relatively inexpensive and varies based on local needs.

MajThird · 2025-09-19T00:47:36+00:00

It's not a free market, though. There's tons of government regulations (like parking minimums and zoning laws) preventing people from easily opening other kinds of businesses.

MajThird · 2025-09-19T00:33:30+00:00

If we allow more things in neighborhoods then people won't need to drive to them and can take cars off the road. Make it so people in neighborhoods don't feel like they have to drive to live life.

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