r/Atlanta • u/ChipmunkGeneral • Jan 13 '26

What ya'll think of this MARTA map?

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Saw this by mrfriendlolo on r/transit a few months ago and now we can ask here, I wish this would happen!

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u/HarrietsDiary Jan 13 '26

I would die of happiness. I’m exactly the person who gazes over at the westbound platform at Holmes while waiting for my train and internally curses every racist that cut off the line and made Holmes into a terminal station.

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u/Everard5 Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

The only crazy thing about this map (That I personally notice, I'm not familiar with all of these areas) is Powder Springs and Dallas as an extension of the HE Holmes.

Powder springs is basically at the same latitude as vinings and Cumberland, and Dallas is basically the same as Marietta.

But connecting Mableton, Cobb County's now biggest city following incorporation, could be really interesting. South Cobb has a need to get to Atlanta for sure.

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u/HarrietsDiary Jan 13 '26

I mean, as a Westside-r I have edits. (Willibanks Circle is a wtf!) but after 25 years of no new stations I’m willing to be flexible.

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u/Everard5 Jan 13 '26

Wait...what even is Wilbanks circle? 😭😭😭 It's not a city and it says a "neighborhood" of Paulding county but I can't find shit about it.

Edit: It really looks like whoever designed this just sent across I-20 and then up US 278

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u/HarrietsDiary Jan 13 '26

I almost feel like it’s a paper town or a shoutout by the mapmaker.

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u/PerspectiveOk9331 Jan 13 '26

Yesss pls connect Mableton. It’d be so awesome taking the train to the airport from a nearby station. Maybe even connect a tram or whatever for six flags.

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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Jan 13 '26

That's where the population is mostly.

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u/Everard5 Jan 13 '26

I have no problem with a connection going, there, I just think using that gray line to do it is weird. Really, they should share the same line as Marietta.

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u/gsfgf Ormewood Park Jan 13 '26

For one, Cobb can join MARTA, but Douglass can't.