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The AJC's editorial board delivered its verdict on Atlanta's World Cup month: the city didn't just pass the audition, it stole the show.
MARTA credits World Cup events with 1.7 million extra trips over six weeks — with no major breakdowns or safety incidents — and says the bar for downtown transit has been permanently raised.
Dietmar Exler, the AMBSE operations chief who readied Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the World Cup, will retire Aug. 14, with Tameka Rish promoted to chief operating officer.
City Hall took a well-earned bow as officials tallied the transit numbers and cross-agency teamwork behind Atlanta's World Cup summer.
Atlanta's 34 days of World Cup hosting are shaping up as a rhythm of crescendos rather than one big bang — and downtown is the stage for all of it.
Eighty-four percent of readers polled before the first match doubted the system was ready; a month of data says the doubters lost this one.
For two days the city parked its 2.7-mile loop and handed the blocks around Mercedes-Benz Stadium to people on foot.
A federal emergency approval is sending a pair of young males from Niagara Falls to Pemberton Place, and downtown's biggest attraction is making room.
An Urbanize Atlanta editorial makes the case that the tournament's most durable win was never tourism dollars, it was the downtown buildout the deadline forced across the finish line.
The agency's post-tournament scorecard is less a ridership brag than a staffing story: borrowed officers, 600 ambassadors and shifts that barely stopped.
A 33 out of 100 doesn't sound like a compliment — but the same report that graded Atlanta's bike network also put it on a short national watch list.
At a July 22 press conference, Mayor Andre Dickens and department heads walked through what it actually took to run six weeks of World Cup downtown while the rest of the city kept operating.
South Downtown's V3M6 update recaps World Cup fan marches up Broad Street and a wave of restaurant openings.
The Pourdown and RenderATL threw a wine-and-music night at Founders Green during Atlanta's World Cup season.
The Mayor’s Office is pushing a broader downtown itinerary as the World Cup enters its final weeks, spotlighting Underground, South Downtown, Global Grub Alley and more.
