I moved to PTC over 20 years ago. I moved here because of the schools and I liked the country feel PTC offered.

Fayette County has gone from around 40,000 people in 1985 to over 90,000 in 2000.

The Atlanta metro area has gone from around 2.5 million people in 1985 to a little over 4 million people in 2000 with little or no infrastructure improvements.

Don’t hold your breath for the roads to double capacity any time soon. The last time I checked Georgia was a tad over $12 Billion short on it’s budget for needed traffic improvements.

My commute is only 32 miles and I leave at 5:00 AM and I could be at work in 35-40 minutes. My biggest problem was a deer crossing the road. Now it takes me an hour and my biggest problem is the traffic.

As to your comment, “he was seen boarding the Marta train”, we’re not talking about MARTA anything. What the article is telling you about is a lite-rail “COMMUTER” system. It’s NOT the MARTA subway system. Currently the Atlanta metro area doesn’t have any lite-rail systems in operation. Hopefully the two will be tied into one another.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a job in Alpharetta and live in PTC?

That’s one of the drawbacks to PTC is that there aren’t any jobs here that pay employees what it costs to live here. MA large of our Police, EMS personnel and teachers can’t afford to live here. If the pay in PTC was so great I wouldn’t be stuck in traffic trying to get from PTC to Atlanta and back everyday.

As far as your perceived crime issue, I would invite you to read the article titled, “6 still at large for gun store break-in; video shows burglars' hit on store” In that article you will read “After using a stolen truck”. Nowhere does it mention that the thieves took the “lite-rail commuter train” from or to anywhere. Had they done so, they would have been caught by now.

You’re just going to have to get used to the fact that PTC ain’t your aunt’s farm in Kansas anymore.

P.S. It's ironic that your blog name is "Roadrunner" as you can't do anything like that on our highways anymore.

Maybe it's just another one of those inexplicable southern things but.....that mentality is why we're in such a transportation mess nightmare around here. Look at most of all the major metro areas around the country and especially in the North. All of the most affluent, most desirable suburbs have some sort of mass transit in or around the town.....most have both train service and bus service into the city. That is why educated, intelligent, prosperous and wealthy people desire to live there. If they don't already have major business located within their town they want to have a sensible way to get to and from their place of employment. I spent many a day on the bus and train into and out of work. I was able to sit back and relax for the most part, read the paper, have something to eat, read or get work accomplished all while also having the opportunity top converse with other commuters if I so desired. It's just how it's done in most places and you get cars off the roads and pollution/smog out of the air. And by ther way, how often will a criminal hop on the bus or train, get off, rob you, your home or business and then get back on the bus or train? Ask some people from areas where there is a mass transit system to speak of that question and they'll look at you like you've three heads.

"everybody's dancin'in a ring around the sun"

An absence of public transit keeps the "riff raff" out of Fayette County. Now who would have thought that? LOL
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It is sad to see the same old insular--and largely racist fears---come up every time some type of mass transit is proposed for Fayette County. Hopefully the days of such objections to commuter rail are almost past. This is the 21st Century and PTC is part of the larger Atlanta metropolitan area. If you did not want be part of the Atlanta area I suggest you should have moved further south.

Mass transit does not bring more crime it brings more commuting options to PTC and other Fayette County residents.

I never thought of that!~ I just assumed that the train would come here, pick us up, take us to Atlanta, and then bring us home in the evening, or morning if we worked nights!
You mean some in Atlanta can ride it here from there, also?
What is the world coming to?

If your concerned about "undesirables" coming to PTC and rob you house they would look a little suspicious waiting for the train holding your TV don't ya think?

Where has it been a problem before?

You house, huh! I don't know what a "your concerned" is.
The big problem is that they would come here to work and take all the good jobs! You wouldn't be able to buy a job running an office, owning a restaurant, or developing homes!