Friday, March 20, 2009

Budget Crisis in MARTA

Today, I was searching some MARTA pictures on Internet and found this article by chance. MARTA has been $60 million budget shortfall, and I am the one who is suffer from this crisis, because Human Resource Department could not decide to decide to offer this position for the next fiscal year until June, which leads to the fact that I am not able to apply H1B.
This is something I heard in the train on the way back to home after work. One lady from Delaware talked about how good this transit system is, and another two people both agree with her, because with the purchase of MARTA's Breeze card, the passengers can take the train without any limit. However, when thinking of the bad economy that makes the impact on MARTA, my company may take the action of reducing the service level, eliminating bus routes and cutting rail service. I am not sure when it will really happen, but I am thinking what will be good measures to deal with this crisis. The reason is that the gas fee has declined dramatically; some people may consider driving instead of taking the train in terms of crippled service.
I hope the decision makers in MARTA will consider it deliberately. Probably I am not a down-to-earth person, but I believe that MARTA still has to provide the best transit service for the residents in metropolitan Atlanta.

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