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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Atlanta is a metro region of over 5 million. 80,000 daily trips is paltry for a metro region of that size.
Montreal, a city with a metro population 20% smaller, posts nearly 10x the daily ridership with over 750,000 daily trips. That is a transit oriented city.
Even Boston posts over 3 times the ridership in a smaller metro, and that's a direct US comparison.
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With the exception of the subway beneath Peachtree St., MARTA generally does not have good station locations because the lines typically follow freight railroad corridors at-grade out to suburbs.
By comparison, Montreal's Metro is completely, 100% underground, meaning nearly all stations are in ideal locations.
Boston is half-and-half. Most of the Red Line is a real subway line, with stations located beneath traditional neighborhood business districts, but the Orange Line made use of existing ROWs, as does the Blue Line and the southern extensions of the Red Line.