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Tom Baxter: Republicans aren’t looking good as Gwinnett votes on MARTA
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Passengers board a MARTA train during the evening rush hour March 31, 2017, in Atlanta. A plan to expand metro Atlanta’s commuter transit system could soon test whether its once predominantly white suburbs have eased their opposition to a transit connection with the city center. The proposal aims to create a system that operates more smoothly across county lines. - photo by Associated Press
When I worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal back the mid-’70s, I would rise before dawn to catch a MARTA bus at the corner of North Decatur Road and Scott Boulevard, along with a crowd of commuters who drove every day from Lilburn and Lawrenceville, parked in the North DeKalb Mall lot and made the second leg of their commute by public transit.