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Atlanta, Georgia


Atlanta
is home to the first subway in the South. The system has
three lines, a hub station (Five Points) and one
branch.
There is talk of a Belt
Line encircling the city with a mix of bus, light rail,
heavy rail and Bus Rapid Transit (Exact mix and exact
station locations are still undecided). When this
line is built ( which will be in stages) it will
be added to this section.
Unique to MARTA is an
identification system based on distance from Five
Points. Since it is the hub of the system
Five Points has no letter and number. Where a line
branches off. the number used is the next number from
the main line but with the branch's letter .For example
Bankhead is P4 and is After Ashby Street (W3)
MARTA has recently
colored coded their system with one admitted oversight.
The original name for the Northeast-South line was to be
the Yellow Line but residents served by the line took
the term as an ethnic slur and the name was changed to
Gold Line.
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