Atlanta's MARTA Rail Network Evolution
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2021
- From its beginning in 1979, the Atlanta rail network has grown to over 38 stations, spanning 48 miles (77 kilometres). This animated video takes you through the timeline of when new stations were opened, forming the MARTA rail network that we know today.
🚧 Full construction timeline: Coming soon!
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- Population given is the sum of all counties and independent cities with stations in them.
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Just curious. What political boundaries do you use for your population estimates?
For the US, I sum up all the counties and independent cities with stations in them. So for Atlanta it was Fulton + Clayton + DeKalb
@@VanishingUnderground oh okay that makes more sense. I'm from Georgia and 2.4 million didn't make sense for either the metro area almost 6 million nor Atlanta proper almost 500 thousand haha. But I get ya now, my county keeps annoyingly voting down transit expansion, if they didn't that would be another million. Love your videos!
@@lifeafterpeople The Atlanta metropolitan area is 6.7 million people
@@lifeafterpeople great question.
@@VanishingUnderground Atlanta is located within Fulton and dekalb counties, so your number is double counting about 500K people
Seattle rejected the federal offer for a rail system in the 1970's so Atlanta took the money instead.
DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
It actually go back to 1960
@@hoodboyzAtl we talking about rail service opening son. Pay attention please.
@@thebootielover I'm not your damn son i a grown man and you better respect it.
@@thebootielover look up the racial makeup and voting tendencies of Atlanta’s suburbs vs. DC then get back to us on that one
I was wondering how thorough you were, I'm glad you caught the Yellow/Gold color change controversy.
D.C have whole yellows
This happened a loooooooooooooong time ago!
It's funny because in SF there is a 'yellow' BART line and a larger Asian population but no one cares.
@@californiahummus it was a big problem in Atlanta though and most of the Asia population lives on the blue line east of Atlanta
And so do New York City and Chicago.
The system is very small for a city of that size. No wonder the video was over so soon.
Atlanta has put forward a few initiatives to improve its metro in the past, but unfortunately, most voters are more in favor of private cars and highways, despite the traffic
@@GriffenDoesIt DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
@@thebootielover bc they don't "want to introduce crime" when my college I have to take MARTA and then take a rapid bus. SMDH
It's a integral part of the Atlanta experience to sit in soul-crushing freeway traffic every single day.
@@eromitlabhitw Certainly.
Since the last expansion, the Atlanta MSA has grown from 4 million to 6 million - yet no further expansion!
Voters continue to be our downfall here, they voted down an expansion into Cobb and Gwinnett. Starting to get annoying sitting in traffic for 2 hours one way.
Also don't count out the Republican Governors. They haven't done anything as they are indifferent to the needs for public transportation. Luckily, Nathan Deal, a Republican, expanded bus routes and initiated the new Atlanta Streetcar. Unfortunately, he couldn't do anything for the rail. I am only 11, but I wish to present my opinion on the issue. I live in Forsyth County, near Johns Creek, jut across the border between Fulton and Forsyth. This area is without a doubt part of the metro area. but to get to a MARTA station, we have to drive 24 whole minutes just to get to the nearest station. It's very annoying. However, plans are in place to extend the Red Line north to Johns Creek. We are only waiting on confirmation from the Georgia Department of Energy on the environmental impact. I'll probably be in college by the time they finish it, but my brother will be very happy!
This is unfortunately a common theme with rail transit in the US (mostly in smaller cities). Big expansion boom around the late 80s and early 90s, and then just nothing despite a growing population.
@@anishraja9655 yeah, the governors see passenger rail as Satan's work.
@@amjkodaz the expansion might have passed if it weren't for COVID...
The reason MARTA exists happens to be Richard Nixon. His father worked on the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Cars, and Nixon just liked interurban transit. When he became President, he hated the HUD and housing projects, so he diverted the funds to public transit in order to benefit urban areas, and Atlanta was one of the few communities to pass a local tax increase to meet the federal match.
it figures tricky dick would be responsible for the WORSTE BUS system in the country.
That's interesting, although I would actually say that public transit doesn't work good for the poor then the housing projects. Since it helps upward mobility not anything against public housing but it's extremely important to have good infrastructure and public transit.
i really hope that marta gets expanded upon heavily. atlanta traffic is egregious and the entire city's roadways are a disaster
No new stations or lines in 21 years (and counting). Wow. Atlanta's rich really hate Atlanta's poor.
All about the racism baby.
Poor people take the bus. I don't know how many poor people take the subway?
I mean not really. You’re telling me that dekalb county could only make 1 line? Or how Atlanta could only make 1 line? I don’t consider the red and gold as 2 separate lines. Why not extend the green line? Or why not make a line to Ponce? Not everything is about racism 🙄 what about corrupt politicians?
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Retire your yt savior complex 🤦🏿♂️ it’s embarrassing.
Still don't get why gwinnett denied a marta rail expansion.
no expansions in over 20 years, yet 2 million more have moved to the metro area. i love my hometown, but come on, there’s certain things to do that would work. Expand the green line through West Midtown/Atlantic Station to Lindbergh. Put heavy/light rail on the Clifton Corridor. Take the red line further up 400 into North Fulton. Gold Line to Gwinnett, new Purple Line to Cumberland/Cobb County. Blue Line to Stonecrest/Thornton Road. It’s so simple…
Those counties all refuse to pay for MARTA. But the streetcar is going to be extended to Ponce, and two BRT lines are being designed.
Purple line should go to Kennesaw State, I hurts that I have to commute from Covington to Kennesaw. Having the rail stop at Stonecrest which is only 10 miles from my my house will be a GOD SEND
How many metro line extensions have we seen over the entire country, literally, over the past 20 years?
20 years I lived in Atlanta and felt that Marta rail service was woefully inadequate.... Then I moved to Houston. holly Fuck does Houston Transit (METRO) make Atlanta look like NYC or Chicago when it comes to the rail network!
Houston’s wimpy light rail sucks compared to MARTA. Our trains go 65mph and never have to cross car traffic. Just look at ridership - MARTA gets twice as many riders as Houston’s light rail, even though Houston is a larger metropolitan population.
@@shivtim I'm aware. I've lived in both cities. Used MARTA for close to 20 years. I remember when there were no stations outside the Perimeter and there was no NW line. I can't tell you how happy I was when they completed the line out to North Springs and I wish they would extend it up to Roswell or at least Northridge. Houston METRO is the biggest joke I've ever seen.
the proctor creek line was meant to extend farther northwest towards the heavily african-american perry homes project, but funds and attention went to the northern extension instead, reflecting marta's priorities putting white suburbanites over poorer central communities. (this is well-covered in bigmoodenergy's video about postwar american metros)
Link?
DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
@@thebootielover Granted, DC Metro also links to Northern Virginia and Maryland where the racial diversity is enormous. ATL, for as large as it is, has demographics in particular locations.
The whites (and afros white wannabes) are in the northside mostly. Granted, MARTA rail does serve a vast majority of black neighborhoods that no one should find any reason to argue about but I can see where Perry Homes was unjustly left out.
Unfortunately, planning development is looking to where the dollars can be made and less resources are needed to be spent. Rather the Red Line in the north gets a lot of ridership or not, you won't see 5-star hotels and outlet strip malls in the Westside as compared to Buckhead and Sandy Springs. Suburbanites profit will almost always foreshadow the urbanites demands.
Actually, that line was originally planned to then go north from Bankhead into Cobb Co. They even built a tunnel for the line that is north of Atlantic Station that was never used and is still there.
Racism is an incredibly divisive issue in the Atlanta area and touches damn near every political and government entity or decision making process. Cobb and Gwinnett Counties opted out of MARTA basically because of racism and a desire to not have "undesirable" people getting easy access to their counties. It's a really big problem that honestly has not gotten better in the close to 30 years I've either lived in Atlanta or had close friends and family in Atlanta.
I’m from Atlanta, and I’ve been riding MARTA for years I ride it to and from school every day, And two other places around our area. I’ve had so many memories Believe me. And I still currently ride it now
I love how the train always pull off soon as I get to the station and im stuck waiting 20 minutes for the next one
Ever think about setting your alarm clock 5 minutes earlier?
They run on these things called Schedules.
@@ChatGPT1111 y’all say that when somethings are highly not in your favor or unpredictable
@@thesharinganknight9859 How is somebody else missing a train, 'not in my favor'?
I'm new to the Atlanta area, and this was very helpful and very well doe. Thank you!
Thanks for using my recommendation! Great video!
You didn't mention the ATL Streetcar, which added 2 milea of surface Streetcar to downtown Atlanta.
Not gonna lie, ATL streetcar is such a useless commodity
@@MJofLakelandX It won’t be soon
@@MJofLakelandX once it’s expanded to the Beltline it would be a game changer
That thing is pretty useless at the moment. You're better off walking that short distance then wait for the streetcar
It wasn't operated by MARTA until recently
No new lines for so many years. America needs to become the country that builds things again. Build more subway lines, they benefit everyone.
I love this! Perhaps do the DC Metro/VRE/MARC/Purple Line next? Would love to help!
Atlanta needs commuter/suburban rail more than anything. Dallas/FW consolidated metro area has only about 12% more people than consolidated metro Atlanta, but has 3 commuter rail lines totally 82 miles and will have a 4th line operating another 26 miles in 2023....(not including the 95 miles of light rail in Dallas). Even Denver, with a metro population that is only half that of metro Atlanta, has 4 commuter lines of 54 miles with another 40 miles in the works (not including the Denver light rail lines). The city of Atlanta might only have a little over 500,000 people, but the metro area is just too big (6.5M+) and traffic too bad to not have a single mile of commuter/suburban rail.
Believe me by Southern red state standards MARTA is pretty good. Of course it's completely inadequate but if you compare it to the joke that is Houston METRO (4th largest city in the damn country), or transit in the Tampa area, Orlando area, Charlotte area, or Hampton Roads VA. area Marta is about 40 years ahead of those cities and several others in the South East.
The only solace is that there’s a proposal called atl trains that is a very extensive commuter rail. But don’t hold your breath
MARTA actually has a much higher ridership than Dallas DART or Denver’s system. It’s the 8h most ridden train system in the entire country.
I remember when I was living in Dunwoody a million years ago on Lake Silver these guys at a bar started telling me that Marta meant moving Africans rapidly through Atlanta I just knocked his asp out.
Yeah, I only lived in Atlanta as a kid and even I remember hearing that hateful acronym :( MARTA is such a good idea, that can help so many communities, but it's a shame no one wants to put in the funds to upkeep and expand it properly, since it's unfairly associated with poverty, blackness, and the inner city
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DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
@@kcha2004 Marta is the 3rd safety system in the United states
@@hoodboyzAtl CAP
Zack, you did a great presentation about Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. That is one rapid transit system I would love to see in real life.
You’ll like it trust me. I go on it every day
@@Yoboiwill555 Thank you for the tip and thank you for tapping or typing to me!
21 years since the last new station. Wow 😳
And believe me we were absolutely thrilled to get even that. Living in Alpharetta it was so damn nice to take North Springs to the airport and leave your car in the free parking garage.
Sounds like they need cross-county-line tolls during rush hours to slow sprawl and reduce traffic.
It’s because MARTA is almost purely funded by Fulton, Clayton, and Dekalb counties and even if they could afford to further expand voters in the northern metro counties wouldn’t allow that
MARTA is useful if it goes where you want; I use it to go to the airport all the time, but I have to drive 12 miles to Dunwoody to be able to do that. There is also a short downtown streetcar, but unless that is expanded it is of little use. The general lack of expansion in the 26 years I've lived here, along with a total lack of commuter rail, is pitiful when compared to other U.S. metro areas of similar size. There have been ideas announced over the years to expand the system, but so far nothing has been done.
*skips a decade* “and finally”
Pretty much sums it up
Zac, thank you for informative video of Marta. Thanks. GOD BLESS 🙌 🙏.
Few years ago, I visited the new Braves ballpark in Cobb County. But my hotel was in midtown Atlanta. I took a train to a bus to wait 45 minutes for another bus. That bus dropped me off a quarter mile from the stadium. Funny how the Braves honor Hank Aaron but turns its back on the black baseball fans from the city its named from.
We call them the Cobb County Braves now.
I know may seem crazy but you think you could Long Island rail road which is one of nyc commuter rail but I love your videos there great
Is Washington, D.C. ‘s WMATA next? It also connects to its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.
There hasn’t really been an expansion of Marta for so long
There have been proposals now and again, but they've yet to move forward.
I have learned on RUclips that there are plans for extending the line to Gwinnett County, but the citizens disapprove.
@@captainkeyboard1007 Taxes in Dekalb, Fulton and City of Atlanta (more recently Clayton) have paid for much of what is MARTA and Gwinnett wants all these conditions and special deals...I say let them rot in traffic. That's obviously what they want. If they want to join the system they can do so on the same terms as everyone else.
There was a recent proposal by Clayton County and MARTA to share right of way with Norfolk Southern from East Point -> Hapeville and down to Lovejoy, forming a new line, but this was rejected by Norfolk Southern who don't want to share their tracks and will require a 26 foot setback from their tracks. This increased the MARTA estimate for a new train line into the billions.
I love the Marta the seats are so comfortable
I'm hype for CTA and/or Metra's rail evolution
It is so sad that they didnt expand it any further for decades.
Moved from NYC to Atlanta in 2013, Marta really sucks between the trains and the buses I don't know which one is worse.
Probably the buses. The trains are decent enough but I see why the busses lack. So many operate into distant neighborhoods (like cul-de-sacs) and suburban areas that it's sorta redundant to have a bus running every 10 minutes. Plus most NYC buses operate short distances from terminus to terminus compared to MARTA
I’ve rode MTA only twice… I got lost once , went the wrong way and was able to easily get back around. I’m from atl, I agree 😭😭 Our system was created through racism, not love
Thank your lucky stars you didn't end up in Houston then...
Tip: the train station name: Atlanta (USA) is from Toulouse, France. appearing from the Round-a-bout, close to the Argoulets depot.
Wait a second. At the time of this post, there's a yellow line on the Washington metro system. I wonder how much longer before DC gets its gold line? Hopefully soon.
Love this video! (By the way, Chamblee is pronounced SH-amblee!)
Yes, its pronounced 'sh' the same as 'charade'. Probably of French origin.
MARTA now plans on extending their system into places like Buford, Lawrenceville, Duluth, Lilburn, Kennesaw, and Marietta, in anticipation of the growing population in those areas
This was recommended to me while riding on MARTA
WMATA Metro DC next. Lmk if you need any help :)
I’m aiming to do all the American systems sometime this year - DC is tentatively scheduled for end of April/early May. I found some good resources for the Metro but if you know any good MARC/VRE resources feel free to link them below!
Who is in someone’s making another Marta evolution video but this time it’s better than the other guy
Thanks for the video. I always though North/South came first, but I was wrong. I hope that in the next decade MARTA can add some new stations!
I can’t wait to see a Chicago episode
Just posted Chicago commuter rail!
they only covered the cardinal directions
I hope they include other directions one day (NW, SW, NE, and SE)
Pretty good.
3:02 and with the hosting of the summer olympics that year the system ridership took a skyrocket increase
Where do you get your population numbers from ?
I think he's basing it on the metropolitan region as a whole.
So MARTA seems to have had it share of RACE issues since it’s inception. Could that be what limits it potential if elevating the metro areas quality if life. MARTA should by now have rail miles and a service area that equal or Morris WMATA by now.
That's almost entirely the reason. Suburbanites (no matter the race tbt) doesn't want to be associated with mass transit and MARTA (or GADOT) doesn't want to build a rail network where a profit is not to be made. It happens all too often.
Luckily for WMATA, they link to the most ethnically diverse region in the country on all corners of its network so not one race is left out of crucial connections.
@@MJofLakelandX yep that pretty much covers it in a nutshell. The counties that opted out of Marta try to hide behind not wanting to pay the taxes but it really comes down to keeping "those people" out of our counties. Racism affects damn near every government and business decision made in Atlanta Metro. It's pretty disgusting when you consider that it was MLKs home town and is still the home of the church he preached in and his Memorial.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Just read suburbanites blaming Baltimore Light Rail for bringing "those people" to their suburbs to steal, when crime reports show it's people who live there as the problem. They just haven't got used to "those people" moving to their suburbs.
Ugh!! I wanna go back!! Atlanta is home of the Elevator Enthusiast foundation baby!!!!
All thanks to MusicFreakCC for putting Atlanta on the map and showing us Marriott Marquis, whiskey blue, Hyatt, Westin, Hilton Lenox square mall and Phipps plaza.
Marta has the potential to be so much better then what it is, but wealthy southerners don't want the train lines to reach out into suburban areas so whatever
The actual boundaries that are mapped out DO NOT include ALL counties........fact checked through the system used to plot areas and population.....done through a company in sandy springs.
Do one for SEPTA
No Atlanta Streetcar mentioned
I love all the people who have such strong opinions about a place they don’t even live
Can you do Chicago(cta)
Do one with Septa
It ain’t gonna get an expansion until the voters do there part
I WISH the Tampa Bay area had something like this to get around. (Don’t @me. I know you couldn’t go underground in FL. They could make it above ground like in Miami)
Could you do Boston’s MBTA (and previous operators)?
I’m aiming to do all the American systems sometime this year - Boston is tentatively scheduled for May
Worse train system in a major city goes to Atlanta.
You must be slow if you can’t understand north,south,east,west
I think it’s the smallest city in North America to have one, so it’s good for what it is
miami has it worse. and the system isnt bad. Marta hasnt gotten any government funds like the big city's (NY, DC, Boston) Marta self funded for a long while. to even bee considered on a video like this is actually an impressive testiment to how they came from the mud.
It's not the worst system for it to be the 8 largest system in the United states
@@stayyindaygaming MTA was built by definitely people and private companies before it became MTA
When you gone do charlotte light rail
Their trains were so beautiful and high freaking tech when I went as a kid.
Hi are commuters allowed to wheel in bicycles on these trains?
Yes they are. And most of the buses now have bicycle racks on the front that can be used as well...
Yes! And while you can take a bike on the current fleet of CQ310/311/312s, the forthcoming new CQ400 trains will have dedicated bike areas/racks!!
2.4 million population? Where's that statistic from? The city of Atlanta itself has a population of ~500,000 while the metro area pop is near 6 million. Ik most of the metro is (unfortunately) not serviced by MARTA, but still
DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
It's 6.7 million
@@thebootielover You are right. Look at what DC was able to do in the same time frame. Although...DC has more funding that comes from the Federal Government
@@scpatl4now DC has more democratic residents in it's suburbs than some of the Metro Atlanta counties for example Clayton County (South Metro) is the most democratic county in Georgia but go North Metro to Cobb County & you will start seeing a lot more republicans. It's much easier to expand in democratic areas.
@@mskeenac21 I dont think it is as much Democrat vs Republican as it is Black vs White unfortunately. Clayton Co only recently joined MARTA a couple of years ago. My take on the northern counties is...I hope you like your horrible traffic because that is what you voted for.
Bruh how does Atlanta have north south line and east west line ,singapore there is north east line ,east west line ,north east line ,Downtown line ,circle line and Thomson East Coast line
a question: is it possible to live in ATL w/o a car? im always hearing how bad traffic and car culture is there. i also didn’t know how big metro was!
Yes, you can live in Atlanta without a car. The bus system is excellent, and has good connections with the rail system.
@@jm-bv1wh If you live in the Atlanta core (inside the perimeter). While technically you could transfer between MARTA and Cobb Transit or Gwinnett transit it would take you hours to do it, and it wouldn't be practical.
Yes it's very possible it would take you forever to get where you need if you are in the suburbs but it's not normal.
it’s possible within the actual Atlanta city limit core. However it may not be practical and time efficient. a short 4-5 mile destination will take you 12 minutes by car but 40 minutes by Marta. Trains run every 15-20 minutes unless you live near a station that serves both rail lines. The buses are now running modified schedules because of what Marta says is driver shortages. certain buses are now running every 20-30 minutes. I think the city of Atlanta and the nearby surrounding metro is doing some good things with creating more density with TOD and other housing and building construction, the metro area is still many decades behind in public transportation. unfortunately i don’t ever think i’ll see it in my lifetime.
I’ve lived and worked in old 4th ward, went to college downtown… it was so convenient. But if you don’t live within the city limits, or inside perimeter… don’t do it. Then again traffic is getting so bad. Your choice honestly lol
Future:
In 2024, the northeast line opened a new station between Norcross and Peachtree Corners called “Best Friend.”
In 2025, the east line opened another station near Stone Mountain Park called “Rockbridge.”
In that same year, the west line opened two more stations heading towards Six Flags Over Georgia called “South Fulton” and “Six Flags”
Simply GWCCCNNCenter. Gonna be my new screen name. Why is MARTA so slow? Or maybe more academically, how does its speed compare with other systems?
Marta train go 70 mph
MARTA trains actually are faster than a lot of other systems.
Marta ain’t the best but better believe they do have some speed.
Marta goes insanely fast dude
Not the buses though
2.4 million people, lol the city has only about. 500k and the metro has way more than 2.4
Atlanta have 6.7 million people
Did the yellow line serve Asian communities?
i thought it was the yellow line last time ive ridden! i didnt know they changed it because of the local asian community
I miss the directional names...
We have nearly 6 million people in the MSA
We have almost 7 million
@@thesharinganknight9859 no we don't go ahead and Google the latest census information yourself.
Good new guys, we may be getting more light rail. Just have to wait 20 years though.
lol, 20 years is just the planning phase. smh
@@seeatlanta1408 you mean 20 years UNTIL the REAL planning phase lol
Atlanta metro has over 4,500,000 over
Atlanta metropolitan area have a 6.7 million people
@@hoodboyzAtl thanks i said over
You missed Streetcar
He often skips streetcars
Chamblee is pronounced with a Sh not a Ch
Do nyc
Atlanta have 6.7 million people
DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
@@thebootielover Marta is 49 years old and Wmata is 54 years,
" But my issue is what had replied about Atlanta was incorrected and i had to correct you about my city. metropolitan area.
@@hoodboyzAtl Honey Marta open its rail service in 79 Wmata open in 76. Do the math and research. I'm from Atlanta. have a nice day.
@@thebootielover it's doesn't matter when Marta opens that beside the point.
@@thebootielover I'm from Atlanta as well straight up zone 3 people Town on hill street.
light rail missing
Light rail is like Cobb. They work with Marta but aren't Marta
@@erichuff8207 I thought they were Marta now? Got absorbed or something
@@parkercook288 they did Marta operates it under a branch of light rail operators. i would know considering my family works at marta.
Chamblee is pronounced sham-blee
When did CENTER become SENNER?
That's the Canada voice
But they spell it centre
@@mikedrown2721 that's Canada spelling ^^
My Toronto accent is coming through - always dropping the mid-word T’s 😂
@@VanishingUnderground ah people city 😂
NS1 Airport
They built those lines for the Olympics and haven't built anything since! We need better public transit.
What are the minimum traffic requirements for an olympic host city?
I at least heart about an IOC exclusive street car/bus lane for the time of the games!
Which station is the closest to each of the major sport venues?
How the future extensions could look like?
For a fifth line the inhabitants could use black to "fullfill" the olympic colour scheme!
The Asian population outcry and the colour change are rubbish each!
Why Atlanta is splitted into different counties?
Where are the polticial boarders on a map?
In Prague e. g. the Metro didn´t even touch the city boarder!
Which station is the nearest to the Coca Cola headquarter?
Atlanta Mayor: Keisha Lance Bottoms (D; black woman)
Atlanta City Counil: 16 members
Chairman of the Fulton Board of Commissioners: Robert Pitts (D)
Fulton County Board of Commissioners (7): D 4; R 3
Dekalb County Chief Officer: Michael Thurmond (D; black man)
Dekalb County Council: D 7
Atlanta’s metro population is 6.2 million not 2.4 million. 9th largest in the US!
He is basing it on the ridership access which does not include Cobb or Gwinnett County as well as several other counties included in the metro population number. If MARTA doesn't serve it the population isn't being counted for the purposes of the video. I would agree that he needs to make that more clear in the videos though.
8th largest passed miami
2.4 million?? city of Atlanta is not even close to that.. inside 285 isnt even 2.4 million lol
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I vacationed in Lucerne Switzerland in 2018 and in 2021. Seeing how good just the buses were blew me away. Extensive bus routes, frequent service with buses coming damn near every minute, and displays at stops that shows you how soon the next 5 buses will arrive. Then coming back to Atlanta and seeing our busses made me gag. MARTA should honestly be ashamed of themselves
Coming from NYC don’t get me started on the trains. Four lines that go up down left and right. And no commuter rail despite having a 5 million population. How Atlanta could have a sister system like DC with its lines and extension while being far less than mediocre is beyond me. The transit community needs to make more videos on Atlanta to display how laughable this L of a system is.
Wow, you must be fun at parties.
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Yellow line offends me. Change lol
DC WMATA metro open 3 years before MARTA. And today it has more than double the miles of track and stations. So why was DC Metro so successful in rail expansion in white suburban neighborhoods and MARTA wasn't? SMGDH
It is obvious that District of Columbia is the nation's capital. MARTA is in Georgia.
I would definitely have to say geographic location. MARTA was built for the airport, convention centers and the arenas not for the suburbs outside of I-285. Not really for the inner city residents neither.
A: DC has very few freeways inside the Capital Beltway.
B: Transit-Oriented Development has been very successful in DC, with some around almost every station outside of the city.
C: Large portions of the system are within the actual city, with is much more dense and has 2 short freeways
Jesus. I had to rewind that and listen again. How truely pathetic a world e we have become. Imagine renaming a colour because your offended by the connotations that are not in any way related to the colour or the line. What sort of country have you become.
Given that the line runs through Chamblee, Georgia. And given that there has been a racist joke that refers to Chamblee as Chambodia for decades I can see exactly why the locals didn't want people to say, "take the yellow line to Chambodia where all the yellow people live." Racism is a huge problem in the Atlanta area. There was a huge fight when they wanted to rename Hartsfield Airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport that was basically all about race. I mean seriously people are going to get pissed simply because they want to add the name of a former mayor who was a huge part of getting the airport expanded simply because he is black? That's just plain ignorant and stupid.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 In LA, the yellow line would have gone through Chinatown and Little Tokyo. It is called the Gold Line instead.
How did the renaming of a rail line piss you off so bad 😭
All of that is wrong
Like what?
@@hectorhector This is a list of key dates which led to the formation of the MARTA stations along the established rapid rail lines.[31]
June 30, 1979 - MARTA's first train, the East Line, began operating between Avondale and Five Points Station. It also marked the start of MARTA's combined bus and rail service.
December 22, 1979 - MARTA's second train, the West Line, began operating between Hightower (H.E. Holmes) and Five Points Station.
September 1982 - the Peachtree Center and West End stations, along the North Line began service.
December 1982 - the Arts Center and Midtown stations began service.
December 1984 - five new stations opened: Lindbergh Center, Lenox, Brookhaven, Oakland City and Lakewood/Fort McPherson. The South Line was introduced.
August 1986 - the East Point Station opened, extending the South Line by about two miles. A little more than a year later, the Chamblee Station began service and served as the temporary end of the Northeast Line.
June 18, 1988 - the Airport Station opens, and becomes the southern terminus of the North-South Line.
December 12, 1992 - The Bankhead Station/Proctor Creek Line went into service.
December 29, 1992 - The Doraville Station opens and becomes the northern terminus of the Northeast Line.
June 26, 1993 - MARTA extended East Line services through Kensington to Indian Creek Station - the first time the rail line went beyond the I-285 perimeter.
June 8, 1996 - MARTA extended North Line services through Buckhead, Medical Center and Dunwoody Stations.
1999 - MARTA announced a partnership with BellSouth to create the Lindbergh Transit Oriented Development (TOD), a live, work and play community built around a rail station and the largest multi-use development of its kind in the United States at the time.
December 16, 2000 - MARTA opened two new rail stations - Sandy Springs and North Springs - on the North Line.
October 1, 2009 - MARTA renames its lines based on colors instead of directions.
February 2010 - MARTA agrees to rename the Yellow Line as the Gold Line in response to outcry from members of the Doraville Asian community.
please please please dissolve the marta company, let another company take over that isn't ALWAYS LATE. The bus system is the WORSTE in the country. fire all the Board members.
gold is yellow
Why didn't the African-Americans in Atlanta complain about the name "Red Line"? (Redlining was a discriminatory practice against the Blacks in terms of mortgage and insurance.)
Sound dumb
Gold and red line both go south to the Airport and only break off at Lindbergh Station Red line North and the Gold line Northeast
At least they didn't make it the "Black Line!"
@@jayo1212 No other rapid transit system, except New York City (Subway) has a black line. The New York City Subway designated the shuttle trains as black-lined routes. They are very short.
@@captainkeyboard1007 Actually, they're Silver Line (S): Franklin Avenue Shuttle; 42nd Street Shuttle; Rockaway Shuttle
No system ANYWHERE other than London Underground (Northern Line) uses black as a it's identity
FARTA
MARTA is a joke.
just like your face
The surrounding suburban counties must vote to join Marta, and surrounding suburban counties taxpayers must pass the 1 % sale tax in order for Marta to expand into Cobb county, Gwinnett county, or any surrounding suburban counties. May GOD cove and bless Marta Transit System Authority 🚇 and its daily and annual ridership. GOD BLESS 🙌 🙏 ❤️