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TL;DR<\/a>: MARTA CEO Jeffrey Parker dies by suicide after stepping in front of a MARTA train at the East Lake transit station<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t even know what to write in regards to this.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve said so many things about MARTA over the years that I just feel like I can\u2019t let this go by without some effort to write something about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely not something that I can inject personal opinions into or try to spin this in a manner that makes MARTA look stupid or be something to laugh at.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Suicide isn\u2019t something to laugh at, because although it may end the suffering from those who feel they are, they\u2019re opening up a world of it for those who have to pick up the pieces from their abrupt departure. \u00a0And as I\u2019d be willing to wager, many of us who have no idea who Jeffrey Parker is aside from being the MARTA guy, this news probably caught a lot of people completely out of the blue.<\/span><\/p>\n Make no mistake, running MARTA definitely has to be one of the most thankless and seemingly fruitless jobs in the city.\u00a0 It\u2019s a joke to many, endlessly handcuffed by bureaucracy and red tape, and intertwined with all sorts of racism, which leads to this hopeless package of a private company where people take the jobs primarily because they\u2019re jobs, and not because anyone believes in the good and betterment of the agency and expects there to be any substantial growth; the entire Metro Atlanta area has seen to it already to ensure that such doesn\u2019t happen.<\/span><\/p>\n But Jeffrey Parker hasn\u2019t really done a poor job of running MARTA; granted, in one of those ironic twists, the pandemic and peoples\u2019 general inclination to avoid crowds and crowd-inducing things like public transit has probably helped a little bit to reduce negative numbers, but Parker\u2019s name hasn\u2019t popped up routinely with some embarrassing MARTA or Atlanta-ey meme associated with.\u00a0 No news is good news when it comes to associating with MARTA, I\u2019d theorize.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, outside of those who actually knew the guy, nobody has any idea to the demons running around in his closet.\u00a0 To the point where they actually succeeded at getting the body to believe that it was a good idea to throw himself in front of one of the train that he and his occupation oversaw.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely something a little bit ironic, and a lot bit fucked up, and leads to little else than all bit sad.\u00a0 No news is good news, but this news is fucking horrible.<\/span><\/p>\n In the past, I remarked that Jeffrey Parker had a lofty task to live up to the bar that predecessor Keith Parker had laid down for him.\u00a0 But MARTA was running fairly comfortable since the transition, so all too soon, it will be time for yet another successor to step into shoes with dismal expectations, and hope to keep the ship steady and afloat, but for completely different reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TL;DR: MARTA CEO Jeffrey Parker dies by suicide after stepping in front of a MARTA train at the East Lake transit station Honestly, I don\u2019t even know what to write in regards to this.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve said so many things about MARTA over the years that I just feel like I can\u2019t let this go … Continue reading No laughing matter<\/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":[137,118,143,49],"class_list":["post-48383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-death","tag-marta","tag-ohatlanta","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383","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=48383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48385,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48383\/revisions\/48385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}