{"id":45574,"date":"2017-12-20T20:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45574"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:53:15","slug":"lol-marta-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45574","title":{"rendered":"lol MARTA #189"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wrong for so long, it\u2019s pretty much been forgotten<\/a>: Oakland City MARTA station still does not have an elevator, 33 years later<\/span><\/p>\n

33 years??\u00a0 I\u2019m 35 years old.\u00a0 This is practically something being promised to me when I was born, and still<\/em> not delivered after over three decades.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret to how inept MARTA is, but for something to not be solved in 33 years, that could very well be among its longest-lasting fuck ups in organizational history.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean Keith Parker went gangbusters on MARTA improvements; it\u2019s hard to imagine that something like installing a single elevator could actually slip under his radar.\u00a0 But given the fact that Parker himself is somewhere in his 40s, I\u2019d guess it\u2019s not difficult to miss something that\u2019s been a problem when it was already neglected into being the norm when he was still in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, this story is still ironically hilarious in only the manner in which MARTA could make ineptitude funny.\u00a0 I think the best part is the fact that they don\u2019t have an elevator, but they have space saved for one, and the shaft already ready for the installation of one.\u00a0 It\u2019s just the fact that over the last three decades, MARTA has just failed to actually put an elevator into the space, alienating the handicapped and those with strollers and\/or luggage from being able to traverse from one floor to the next.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a car person buying a car to restore from the ground up, meticulously constructing and putting it together, but then not installing an engine into it, and then letting it sit for 33 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elevators haven\u2019t changed that dramatically over the last three decades, but technology surely has evolved a little bit, but most importantly, Americans have certainly gotten larger.\u00a0 By now, even if this news exposure lights a fire under MARTA\u2019s ass to actually get an elevator installed, the shaft bored out 33 years ago probably is going to need some further modification and clearance to be compliant with the elevators of today.\u00a0 Probably in the realm of size, because people today are fatter than ever, and with their wheelchairs, strollers or luggage in tow, some of today\u2019s hefty fuckin elevators are probably going to be needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

To which MARTA is going to have to spend even more money and wasted effort in order to retroactively update something that was never used in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or they\u2019ll say they\u2019ll do something about it to get the outcry to die down, but then neglect it for another 30 years.\u00a0 They\u2019ve done it once before, who\u2019s to say that history wouldn\u2019t repeat itself, since this is the option that requires zero dollars and zero effort?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrong for so long, it\u2019s pretty much been forgotten: Oakland City MARTA station still does not have an elevator, 33 years later 33 years??\u00a0 I\u2019m 35 years old.\u00a0 This is practically something being promised to me when I was born, and still not delivered after over three decades.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret to how inept MARTA … Continue reading lol MARTA #189<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,118,52],"class_list":["post-45574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-marta","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45576,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions\/45576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}