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The District 3 City Council race is heating up as a challenger who served on the Planning Commission is taking on an incumbent who has held the post since the city was founded nearly seven years ago. The election will be decided Nov. 5.
Madeleine Simmons, who has been on the Planning Commission since 2017, announced her bid July 15 for the District 3 Council seat currently held by Bates Mattison. Mattison has served on the council since the city’s inception in 2012. “I’ve been in Brookhaven for more than 10 years now, and I’m very passionate about See PLANNING on page 14
Bushra Alfaraj lives near the Brookhaven border and when the weather is not too hot, she likes to walk about 10 minutes from her apartment to the Briarwood Road bus stop to catch MARTA Bus 39 at 9 a.m. It’s about a 30-minute ride on the bus to the McClave Drive stop in Doraville. From there, she walks another 15 minutes to her job as development designer at the Center for Pan Asian Community Services on North Shallowford Road. She also regularly rides Buses 47 and 133, which have stops closer to her home and where she needs to go, but those buses are never as full as Bus 39, she said. “It’s really fun for people-watching,” Alfaraj said of Bus 39. “I can definitely see why Buford Highway requires more stops ... between it being a long highway and the diversity.” Alfaraj said taking the bus to work gives her time to relax. She’s currently studying for the GRE and has digital flash cards she can flip through during the ride. “It’s also a good time to catch up with my family and friends who live all over the place ... Riding Bus 39 is a good time for me to connect with everyone, or I can spend it reading or listening to music,” she said. With an average daily ridership of more than 5,400 on weekdays and more than 7,000 on weekends recorded between December and February, Bus 39 is the most used of MARTA’s 101 bus routes. Bus 110, which serves the Brookhaven and Chamblee area, has the next highest weekday rider average for the area at 3,482, acSee ALL on page 22
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