2/9/2024 0 Comments Denver dart train schedule![]() YouTube - Dallas Dart Rail in downtown Dallas YouTube - DART Arrivals at Dallas Union Station You can see this pretty apparent for yourself just by checking out DART and MARTA trains in action through their respective Downtown areas. Marta like I said hits most of Atlanta's popular in town destinations with rapid rail with the exception of Emory, Va Highland, and Lp5 but it has stations close enough to these to be only a short bus ride away.įinally, Heavy Rail is so much faster and moves more people as stated before and this is something light rail really can't emulate going through town streets especially Downtown. Future of the systems is up for debate but if Mart actually carries out all it's plans for the future (this is where I'm worried) and on time then it's future system should be better than the others as well. The only thing DART has over it is miles of track but like stated before that is light rail and Marta's more rapid heavy rail miles do a really good job of hitting major inner city destinations. I still however, feel Marta is superior to the other systems using the criteria the OP set forth. My biggest criticism of Marta has been it's failure to carry out more expansion of it's rapid rail and add commuter lines. ![]() MARTA is better at that metric given Los Angeles has a central city population 8 times higher than Atlanta and a metro population three times higher). With that said, and as others have stated, MARTA is leagues above the rail transit available in Dallas and Denver and is better than LA's rail for now (although they technically have a higher ridership than MARTA when Light Rail and Subway is combined, it is only be a few thousand passengers. ![]() In other words, they are essentially equal and neither holds an advantage over the other. MARTA has a daily rail ridership of 260,000 passengers Because of that, the most important factor of judging how good of a transit system a city has is to look at how many people ride it on a daily basis.īART has a daily ridership of 300,000 passengers However, as you should know (do you?), it really doesn't matter what the coverage is if no one rides it. Thusly, MARTA serves it's central city better than BART and BART serves it's suburbs better than MARTA. With BART, the majority of the stations are not in San Francisco proper. As you can see on the MARTA map (which is not to scale), the majority of the system's stations are in Atlanta proper. If it is the maps, then that is an example of how BART and MARTA equalize. I'll give you the DC metro is a league above every city in the States except NYC in terms of coverage and usage, but I really don't understand your premise for how BART whallops MARTA? ![]() Thank you, ATL's MARTA has the pontential to be better than all the other cities I listed but until the system gets expanded it can't be compared to DC or SF. It is best compared to the cities I put up against. Sorry no, ATL can't compare its system to DC or SF it best compares to the cities I put it up against, this is not a knock against ATL but as of now this: ![]()
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