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Localize your life
Local designer Ted Ullrich of Epidemik Coalition put together “Localize Your Life,” an ad hoc photo series of Atlanta’s empty gas stations to document “the state of things here.” It’s kind of...
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Made for prepaid
I had a whole love letter to MARTA brewing in my head this afternoon, but then I was left waiting for the bus for, I don’t know, 20 extra minutes to get home. I lost track of time because I was more...
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Trauma: Life on MARTA
A few weeks ago, I saw a BOLO flyer up on MARTA for a man who had apparently escaped from the V.A. hospital in Decatur wearing nothing but his hospital-issue nightgown and robe, waist-length dreads,...
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I demand MARTA fashion
I get a lot (= 3) of fan mail from fellow MARTA patrons who know what’s up. And I’ve been jealously watching from afar all the support that cycling gets from the design community WHICH IS FINE, because...
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I will be a corporate whore for MARTA
You know, I don’t take Transit TV lightly. If you don’t use MARTA then you have no idea how irritating it is to see the same ads for 20ColegioEnPJs.com and a pyramid scheme run by the sheriff from...
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Transit happenstance
From the Briarcliff Plaza parking lot, I witnessed one of the most beautiful urban moments I’ve ever seen in Atlanta: an eastbound #2 MARTA bus, a westbound #2, a northbound #16, and a southbound #16,...
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Life after the 45
Y’all, we rode the #45 for the last time on Friday! I made my old pal from the 45 (no longer a resident of Atlanta) fly down for the event and get on at his same bus stop for the sake of consistency...
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Alternatives to public transit
While MARTA is famous for being MARTA, there are lots of other little lesser-known transportation services running in metro Atlanta that are realer than the streetcar, BeltLine’s transit component, and...
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MARTA in the movies
MARTA has played a bit part in a few films over the years, whether Atlanta is a cheap location for a film set in some other city or explicitly acknowledged. There’s the very memorable hijacking of a...
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