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TIL<\/a>: apparently retired train cars can be cleaned and dumped into the ocean to create an artificial environment that can eventually grow into reefs<\/span><\/p>\n When I first came across this story, it was actually brilliant; the headline was something along the lines of MARTA trains to be dumped into the ocean<\/em>, and I could already feel the gears grinding at just how such a story can write itself, with less thought to how Metro Atlanta Rail Transit Authority trains go from Atlanta to like, Savannah.<\/span><\/p>\n How it surely sounded like some sort of catastrophic fuck-up that only a company like MARTA would be capable of doing, to where trains from the city end up in the ocean, and just the thought of MARTA trains being unceremoniously dumped into the ocean would have to be quite the visual.<\/span><\/p>\n But then I come to learn that MARTA is just jumping aboard a program that\u2019s apparently been around for a while, the practice of dumping retired train cars into the ocean, so that they can ultimately be grounds for reef life to grow and become artificial reefs for marine life to inhabit.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, once I started looking into the whole thing, it really does sound kind of cool, and I can understand the logic of how an old and busted dead train car could still serve a purpose, 20,000 leagues under the sea.\u00a0 And as much as I love to clown on MARTA, I do have to give them a tip of the cap to participating in a program that\u2019s progressive, creative and resourceful.<\/span><\/p>\n However, upon further reading something did catch my eye and pique my critical ire:<\/span><\/p>\n The cost to dismantle, clean, and transport the eight cars is just over $2.1 million.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I\u2019m no expert, but those numbers seem pretty high.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to imagine that the vast bulk of expenses have to be in logistics and the costs to get these train cars on a tanker to boat them over to their eventual final resting spots, but I\u2019m still hard pressed to believe that $2M bones is still what it actually costs to clean and dismantle and transport eight trains.<\/span><\/p>\n This, is where it all seems to make sense why MARTA is doing this, so they can create a smokescreen to (falsely) justify blowing $2M on an activity that looks like they\u2019re trying to do good, but really just pad some peoples\u2019 pockets as is the customary norm for an agency like them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TIL: apparently retired train cars can be cleaned and dumped into the ocean to create an artificial environment that can eventually grow into reefs When I first came across this story, it was actually brilliant; the headline was something along the lines of MARTA trains to be dumped into the ocean, and I could already … Continue reading Oh, MARTA #699<\/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":[79,112,191,118,143,49],"class_list":["post-49442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-crime","tag-greed","tag-marta","tag-ohatlanta","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442","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=49442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49444,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49442\/revisions\/49444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}