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The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA, / ˈ ɡ r ɛ t ə / "Greta") is a government agency in the U.S. state of Georgia.It was set up under former governor of Georgia Roy Barnes, in order to address mobility, air quality and land use and how they relate to the transportation needs of metro Atlanta, including both roads and public transit. [1]
The building serves as the Georgia headquarters for Regions Financial Corporation. The building is located on the corner of 14th Street and West Peachtree Street which is the latitude line that defines the center of Midtown. Its parking garage entrance is located at 1217 Spring Street. Prior to 2013, the building was known as Atlantic Center ...
Transportation in Atlanta: The Downtown Connector, MARTA train at College Park Station, Inman Yard, cyclists at Streets Alive, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Atlanta's transportation system is a complex multimodal system serving the city of Atlanta, Georgia , widely recognized as a key regional and global hub for passenger ...
Service hours are from roughly 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 pm weekdays, with most service being rush hours only. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 899,500, or about 3,800 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
The building is serviced by MARTA Red and Gold line trains at the Peachtree Center station, as well as the Atlanta Streetcar at the Woodruff Park and Peachtree Center streetcar stops. In 2017, Georgia's Own Credit Union became the building's main tenant and took naming rights, with the trademark "EQUITABLE" sign replaced with a digital LED ...
These reports viewed transit as a means to shaping and planning the future of the Atlanta region, as well as maintaining Atlanta's role as a regional center in the southeast. The third report, titled Rapid Atlanta was published in 1960 by the Atlanta Transit System which proposed a $59 million first phase of a 16-mile (26 km) rapid transit system.
One Georgia Center (formerly known as the Life of Georgia Building) is a skyscraper in SoNo, Atlanta, at the intersection of West Peachtree Street and North Avenue. Completed in 1968, the 24-story building is notable for its Georgia marble exterior.
Atlanta streetcar, 1910. Pay-as-you-enter cars were being introduced at the time. Streetcars originally operated in Atlanta downtown and into the surrounding areas from 1871 until the final line's closure in 1949. The first such transportation began with horsecars in 1871, and electric streetcar service started in the 1880s. [1]