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The Beltline's free driverless shuttle pilot added a stop just north of I-20 serving Morehouse, Spelman and Clark Atlanta, tying the AUC to MARTA's West End station and Lee + White.
The transit agency that moves most of downtown Atlanta now has a permanent chief: Jonathan Hunt, a 12-year MARTA lawyer who ran the system through the World Cup, drops the interim tag.
New Atlanta Regional Commission estimates put the city at 549,615 residents, finally clearing the 497,000 peak it set in the 1970s and never matched until now.
Nine years after it won its first grant, the 15th Street extension is finally due to open, threading two new blocks from West Peachtree over to Spring and Williams streets.
Three finalists are up for the permanent MARTA job, and whoever lands it inherits the CQ400 railcar delays, the faregate mess and a rail map that stopped growing in 2000.
The transit agency that moves most downtown workers and visitors is about to get its first permanent chief since August 2025, with a board vote set for Aug. 13.
Nearly 40 hand-built wooden covers have gone down over missing water meter lids across Atlanta since April, and the city's Watershed department wants them gone.
A transportation planner stood on the trail with a hand-lettered sign for two days in late July, and the 193 answers he collected show a Beltline public that agrees on very little.
A 13-0 council vote funds a citywide inventory of every gravel and dirt street, alongside tens of millions in pump station and wastewater repairs approved the same night.
Free Aug. 8 event at Monday Night Garage puts Invest Atlanta, Atlanta Housing, Habitat and the Beltline's new down payment assistance program under one roof.
State planners want to know what a 2.5-hour train ride to Savannah is worth to metro Atlantans, as a $10-million study grinds toward a 2028 finish line.
Eight matches, 500,000 Fan Festival visitors and 24 miles of repaved road later, downtown's businesses came away with wildly uneven numbers and one open question.
Six years after Atlanta impounded its way to a scooter exodus, riders logged nearly a million miles on Lime devices alone during the tournament.
AJ Robinson has watched downtown host everything since the 1996 Games — here is his six-point case for why the World Cup worked, and what it sets up next.
City Hall gathered to tally the tournament: four million MARTA trips, 122,000 emergency calls answered in under six seconds, and 25 miles of fresh downtown pavement.
