ebragg09

A minimum width lane really doesn't leave enough room to lane split. It works in places like California because they have significantly wider lanes than the minimum required almost everywhere.

Also "Atomic Accidents" (in the accident genre, but focused on early nuclear research accidents mostly). It's a surprisingly fun read for a topic where most of the people who are featured died horribly.

Not in Georgia. They pretty much try to get everyone to take it here.

Well, also, you've got the factor that if you can use uber to get to the places transit doesn't go, then you're more likely to go car-free. I live in ATL, and take transit to work, but if I had a car, I'd likely end up driving everywhere just because of the "well, I'm paying for a car, may as well save 5 minutes instead of paying for transit". Sure, some of the trips probably are instead of transit, but having uber as an option certainly dramatically increased how often I took transit.

the big thing that falls under monopoly regulations is google favoring ads for their products over competitors. showing google shopping results over amazon ones, for example.

Eh, 2 hours, hike for 10 hours, 2 hours - you can do that all while it's still light quite easily in the summer time, and 10 hours of hiking is a damn good day :)

I wonder how skewed this is by the fact that they're in overwhelmingly high cost of living areas.

Because their profits are limited as a percentage of revenue (aka "they must spend x% of their revenue on patient care"), and thus there's a huge incentive for prices to go up across the board to increase their dollar amounts that don't have to be spent on patient care.

The proposed locations are on MARTA (the main one is 15 minutes from the airport by direct rail), and certainly not all the way up in Alpharetta.

I've never had the experience of being the only white person on the trains (though I still often am the only white person on a lot of the bus routes I take), and they're generally pretty crowded with all walks at this point. The CEO who took over in 2012 has had it revenue-positive every year and in 2016 ATL voters passed a tax increase to build out more, so it's got the public support now as well.

well, because it has a max 180 mile per day limit with per-mile costs above that. So if you're staying overnight, that's one thing, but doing a 2 hour, go kayaking, 2 hours back type drive doesn't work.