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In Atlanta, there’s hope because you have a great historic core, but much of the postwar growth, the suburban and exurban growth, happened in the age of the automobile. So it’s been a challenge. You have about 500,000 transit boardings a day on the whole [MARTA transit] system. Montreal is a little smaller than Atlanta, but it has 2.5 million boardings a day.

Taras Grescoe, interviewed in the AJC about his book “Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves From the Automobile” (via atlurbanist)

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Source: atlurbanist