TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN GEORGIA

ATLANTA AREA


ATLANTA/HISTORIC DETAIL

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Atlanta

Mule Car
1871-1891 - Atlanta Street Railroad Co.
1891-1899 - Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Co.
1889-1896 - mule cars replaced with electric streetcars
1887-1896 - operated steam dummy

1899-1902 - Atlanta Railway & Power Co.
1902-1911 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
1911-1926 - Georgia Railway & Power Co.
1926-1950 - Georgia Power Co.
1926 - buses introduced
1949 - streetcars discontinued
1937-1963 - operated trolleybuses

1950-1972 - Atlanta Transit System

Interurban Atlanta-Stone Mountain

1913-1911 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
1911-1926 - Georgia Railway & Power Co.
1926-1948 - Georgia Power Co.
1929 - buses introduced by separate company Inter-City Coach Lines
1948 - interurban trains replaced with buses

1929-1931 - Inter-City Coach Lines
1931-1937 - Transco Co.
1937-1951 - Suburban Coach Co.
1951-1972 - Atlanta Transit System/Metropolitan Transit System

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1972)
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Historic suburban/interurban bus lines:
Southeastern Motor Lines
Interurban Transit Lines (to Atlanta Ordnance Depot, until 1952)


Interurban Atlanta-Marietta

1905-1911 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
1911-1926 - Georgia Railway & Power Co.
1926-1948 - Georgia Power Co.
1946-1948 - Atlanta Northern Lines
1947 - interurban trains replaced with buses

1948-1970's - Southeastern Greyhound Lines

Marietta/Local

Private bus co. in 1952 - Marietta Coach Co.

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1989)
CobbLinc


New Countywide Transit Systems

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 2001)
Gwinnett County Transit


Newer Regional Transit System

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 2004)
Xpress


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