Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Atlanta

Atlanta’s Streetcar Investment Is Not Paying Off

By Yonah Freemark | Mar 9, 2017 | No Comments

Unable to assemble new funding from the state to significantly improve the rapid transit system, the city of Atlanta chose to focus on a cheaper-to-implement streetcar line. But more than two years after launch, ridership on the streetcar is falling far short of expectations.

A Fixation on Parking Threatens Transit Progress in Atlanta

By Yonah Freemark | Mar 2, 2017 | No Comments

Darin Givens is frustrated with how Atlanta is planning for the future. “We don’t feel like the city is building transit that fits needs, or places that fit transit,” says the founder of local advocacy site Thread ATL. “You see nodes of density nowhere near a MARTA station or a regular MARTA bus. We’re not matching development and transit.”

In Atlanta, Transit Service Lags Behind a Booming Population

By Yonah Freemark | Feb 23, 2017 | No Comments

Since 2000, the Atlanta region has grown by more than 1.5 million people, or over 25 percent, but transit service is not keeping up. Both rail and bus ridership on MARTA, the major regional transit provider, have fallen dramatically in recent years.

How Racial Discrimination Shaped Atlanta’s Transportation Mess

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 8, 2017 | No Comments

Racist fears hobbled transit in Atlanta two generations ago. Is the region finally learning from its mistakes?

Transit Vote 2016: Atlanta May Finally Expand MARTA and Beef Up Bus Service

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 27, 2016 | No Comments

We continue our overview of what’s at stake in the big transit ballot initiatives this November with a look at Atlanta. Previous installments in this series examined Indianapolis, Seattle, and Detroit. Back in the 1970s, both Atlanta and Washington, D.C., received federal grants to build rail networks. After finishing the first wave of Metro construction, D.C. continued to invest, […]

Atlanta’s Pleasantdale Road Voted the Least Crossable Street in America

By Angie Schmitt | May 27, 2014 | No Comments

Streetsblog readers have spoken, choosing Atlanta’s Pleasantdale Road as the “least crossable street in America,” which beat tough competition from Phoenix, Kansas City, and other cities. To legally walk from the bus stop at Pleasant Shade Drive to the apartment complex across the street using the nearest crosswalk would require a three-quarter-mile trip. Jacob Mason, the […]

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