The Beltline, MARTA, and the Future of Atlanta

It's hard to spend any time in Atlanta and not feel like you're in America's city of the future. I visited to check out the current state of the Beltline, the latest transit goings-on, and all the growing pains of this amazing city.

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Previous CityNerd videos referenced:
The Twin Cities Freeway Fight:    • This Mpls Freeway Sucks -- Let's Deco...  
City visit Detroit:    • I Visited the Capital of Motordom and...  

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Resources:
Beltline Transit Study: https://beltline.org/learn/progress-p...
University of Richmond redlining resources: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
Historic Atlanta aerial imagery: https://atlmaps.org/projects/explore
Poor Dwyane Wade. https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganmurrel...

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Images
Transportation Map of Atlanta Showing Street Car Trackless Trolley and Bus Lines of the Georgia Power Company, circa 1950s, MARTA Collection, Georgia State University Library
https://digitalcollections.library.gs...
DC Metro Gallery Place Station By Dikaiosp - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Starbucks Center by Flickr user SounderBruce
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sounder...
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 By Nobel Foundation - Description page (direct link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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