The Yellow Line

The city bus public transit system in Atlanta, referred to as MARTA has recently reorganized the routes with color coding. Not a bad idea at first blush but, choosing to call the route that runs into an area with a largely Asian community the Yellow Line seems ill advised. Some complaints have been raised, but according to one member of management, those complaining don't ride the bus anyway. I don't think they would have gotten by with calling the route into an African-American neighborhood the black line or the one to a largely gay neighborhood the brown line, but they seem to think the Yellow Line is perfectly acceptable. Let the lawsuits begin.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/marta-yellow-line-to-294162.html?imw=Y
     Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 09, 2010
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before the changes were completed an employee tried to warn management that the name would not be well received. but as with many employers, the people closest to the customers, the employees, are largely ignored as know nothings while those who are farthest removed from the day to day workings of the business make the decisions. brilliant. 😕
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/09/10 at 09:55 AM
the pen is mightier than the sword.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/09/10 at 10:57 AM
I agree with Ms. Texas (a.k.a. Sarah An). Get a life, people!

I also agree that "management" no longer refers to anyone who knows how to "manage". Rule 1: The most important person/people in any service organization is the one/are the ones closest to the customer base. Screw that up and all the "managers" in the world won't be able to fix it.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/09/10 at 11:23 AM
it was mentioned that one of the involved parties requested that marta change the name to the gold line. good call dumbfounded. 😉
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/09/10 at 12:23 PM
neither do i sweetie. just shows that you came up with the easiest and best solution independently. 😊
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/09/10 at 12:39 PM
Na... "Flaming Red Line" sounds better.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/09/10 at 12:59 PM
oh how silly of me, it would only be the brown line if it went through a tunnel. :cheese:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/09/10 at 01:27 PM
Last night I thought that "Puce" would be a nice name.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/10/10 at 01:09 AM
Perhaps they could just make it yellow with black edges, then it'd be the borderline, or change it to the colour of garbage, so it becomes the wasteline. Or they could just graffiti over the whole thing, making it the tagline. Or maybe they should choose a herb-green instead, who wouldn't want to travel up and down the thymeline? (Er...) If they repainted it to be the colour of natural flax or jute, would it then be the towline.

But they should probably avoid using "Ming blue" as people might have a few qualms about riding the vaseline.
:cheese:
Posted by Dumbfounded on 02/10/10 at 06:34 AM
the borderline goes into the hispanic neighborhood. 😝
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/10/10 at 06:42 AM
Ooh, there's gonna be trouble now! :gulp:
Posted by Dumbfounded on 02/10/10 at 06:46 AM
you think so huh? well then how about the vaseline goes to the gay neighborhood then? :lol: the white line goes to the drug area.(coke) the feline goes to the animal shelter. the aqualine goes to the lake. the mainline, drug area again. 😜
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/10/10 at 07:06 AM
Ah think something has gone down the mainline already.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/10/10 at 09:10 AM
Someone woke up and smelled the brown line they'd stepped in. It's now going to be the Gold line.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22538509/detail.html
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 02/12/10 at 12:10 PM
saw that on coming a mile away! :lol: hey the route to the philmatheon society is actually one long speed bump, they call it the braille line. :cheese:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/13/10 at 02:01 AM
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