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The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA / ˈ m ɑːr t ə /) is the principal public transport operator in the Atlanta metropolitan area.Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system, MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting of 48 miles (77 km) of rail track with 38 subway stations.
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. [50]
MARTA 2014 Xcelsior 1583 on the 5 Bus on Roswell Road at night. ... Oakland City Oakland City station ... (Merged into Route 31 by 1981; still shown on system maps ...
The Red Line was originally called the North-South Line until MARTA switched to a color-based naming system in October 2009. The North-South Line, from its launch, was considered one line, denoted with an orange color on old system maps until 2006 when the North Branch and the Northeast branch were redesignated as the North-South Line (the ...
The Gold Line was previously called the Northeast-South Line until MARTA switched to a color-based naming system in October 2009. The North-South Line, from its launch, was considered one line, denoted with an orange color on old system maps until 2006 when the North Branch and the Northeast branch were redesignated as the North-South Line (the ...
What is now called the Blue Line contains some of the first sections of the MARTA rail to open. On February 19, 1975, construction on what was then known as the East Line began. [ 1 ] On June 30, 1979, service on the East Line began operating between Avondale and Georgia State .
Map of the initial plan of the MARTA system from the 1970s. The first mention of rapid transit for Atlanta occurred in a series of regional planning reports prepared by the Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) in 1950 and 1954.
While North Springs has been the Red Line's northern terminus for the longest time in MARTA's history, almost 20 years as of August 2020, plans are in place to change this. The Georgia 400 Transit Initiative , or Connect 400, is a future plan to further expand the Red Line an additional 11.9 miles to the northern end of Fulton County running on ...