Public Transportation Withdrawal

Atlanta resident Charles Lyon suffers public transportation withdrawal after ten days in New York.

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October 15, 2004, 5:00 AM PDT

"The strangest thing about returning to Atlanta after 10 days in New York City was having to drive a car again... In New York, I left the driving to professionals cabbies, subway motormen, train engineers, bus drivers and ferry captains...

Atlanta would do well to study the transportation infrastructure of New York City. It is, in a word, marvelous. From the Long Island Railroad to the Hoboken Ferry, commuters in New York enjoy an interlocking transportation system that, on balance, is efficient and affordable," Lyon writes.

Thanks to transport-policy listserv

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Thursday, October 14, 2004 in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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