Two-wheel vehicles would aid MARTA

The main reason people do not ride MARTA to work is their place of employment is too far from MARTA stations to walk ["MARTA isn't ..."]. Each worker could purchase a small, two-wheel vehicle for less than the price of parking fees and gas needed to drive to work. Small vehicles would be fun to ride from MARTA stations and would entice people to ride them instead of driving cars. This would reduce rush-hour traffic as well as air pollution.

If each MARTA station inside Atlanta had secure parking spaces for individually owned small electric or gasoline scooters, people could park cars at outlying MARTA stations and ride MARTA trains and buses. The expense of secure parking would be recovered rapidly from rider fares.

Surely the companies where people work would make secure space available to park these small vehicles. Recharging utilities would be required at MARTA stations and workplaces.

EDWARD L. PHILLIPS

Newnan

Source: ajc.com, Letters to Horizon