Hell, you even visit the Downtown tourist traps, spelunking through Underground Atlanta (wow) and doing the whole World of Coca-Cola, Varsity, and Center for Civil and Human Rights visit. You ride by the house Rick Ross allegedly owns off Old Nat-El. You sit down and talk to the street poets in Little Five Points. You take every random tour, from Oakland Cemetery to Walking Dead film sets. You learn the names of local bands and rappers. You don’t take MARTA, but you seriously consider taking the Atlanta Streetcar. You find out how to get to all the neighborhoods and cool spots that are easily accessible via major interstate exits and landmarks. This is where you attempt to learn everything at once. Go-to activity: Learning the full names and birthdays of every local celebrity chef and mixologist Is there a such thing as a Southwest Atlanta? Where you’re going out: EVERYWHERE! Except Southwest Atlanta. Then you move to West Midtown, breaking your lease agreement. Probably Atlantic Station at first, until you realize you’re the only person living in Atlantic Station. Interracial dating and appreciation for cultural differences! Atlanta is love! Sebastian Davis/Thrillist There are lots of sexy people who are very spiritual and dress really spectacularly, and they’re all much nicer than everybody else was where you just moved from. It’s somewhere between The Love Boat and The Love Below. People go out and have fun, eat phenomenal food, go to festivals, brunch, see celebrities everywhere, and never stop eating breakfast. There are four actual seasons in the year. The cost of living is extremely reasonable and the diversity is damn-near a model for all societies to adopt. This is the initial shock that Atlanta not only doesn’t suck, but is basically a magical land of mystical wonder, freaks, brilliant people, chicken biscuits, and butt-naked booty clubs that are somehow socially acceptable (and encouraged). Go-to activity: Reading Yelp, Angie’s List, Thumbtack, MyAJC, Atlanta Business Chronicle Your mantra: “A whole new world a new fantastic point of view. Where you’re going out: Buckhead Atlanta, Havana Club, Gold Room, The Ivy, Opera Candler Rd.Stage one: The pleasantly surprised stage.Buford Highway Arterial Rapid Transit (ART). Cleveland Avenue and Metropolitan Parkway (ART).Enhanced Bus Transit, Park-and-Ride, and Transit Center Planning.Auxiliary Low Voltage Switchgear Replacement.Perry Facility Security and Lighting Upgrades.Rail Station Electronic Signage Upgrade.The following are projects currently underway: This includes projects aimed at enhancing and replacing current amenities, expanding our services and rehabilitating underused or outdated features. In addition to large-scale development projects and those aimed at improving MARTA’s core services, we also regularly address the needs of the entire MARTA system. These developments help promote economic growth and public transit ridership while boosting quality of life for people all across Atlanta. With the support of our community and the city of Atlanta, we've made transit oriented development, or TOD, a staple of MARTA's efforts throughout the metro area. The following are a few of the departments and initiatives behind these projects, as well as their recent endeavors to make Atlanta a more interconnected city: Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Projects Whether it’s an improvement to MARTA’s service capacity or an expansion of a mixed-use development, these initiatives aim to connect communities all across Atlanta. On-going projects are one of the ways we help create a better, more connected Atlanta.
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