@SrRochardBunson Right? It's *right fucking there* by the trolley (or maybe they meant the one right by the airport? That would make more sense for a test since it's so close? Either way, there is a bus and a MARTA station right fucking there.)

I'm going to be stewing about this for the rest of the damn day.

@bdatlrides @wesley oh wow so there are some of these already deployed? I'm interested in what the issues were (are?).

I mean I'm not going to say there's never going to be a situation where autonomous pods are the solution to transportation, but as it is they are just trains but worse. They are not a solution to mass transit from the airport to downtown.

They're trying to claim they cost less than rail to build (which might be true?), but we've already built the rail so it's a moot point. And there is absolutely no way you can ever move as many people as rail with individual pods that only carry a few people at a time. Even if the vehicles can move at high speeds cause they're autonomous or whatever you're still going to be bottlenecked by people entering/exiting the vehicles a handful at a time.

Anyway, end rant lol

@BreetzTootz although, if they did pull out and Atlanta was stuck with this, at least it's just an elevated mini-road, ie. bicycle path. Maybe it would actually make sense to have a raised bike bridge thing with some cool little stations where you could put lockups from downtown to the airport. Build an off-ramp at College Park and East Point or what not, connect it to the beltline, etc.

(still though, where bike paths go shouldn't be decided by billionaires abandoned private infrastructure)