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How would @marisapk.bsky.social fix Atlanta? Clean water is not simply a human right. It's a public good that we must provide and maintain as we continue to design our city for inclusivity. ATL is thirsty. Let's bring back water fountains. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-marisa-p...

Add Clark Atlanta... and out of precaution, Spelman is also doing a shelter im place. #HBCUs

MARTA’s NextGen Bus Network Redesign will no longer go into effect in 2025, according to Atlanta News First. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/09/a...

BREAKING: The @ajc.com on Thursday said it plans to end its printed edition at the end of this year, accelerating its digital transformation amid a rapidly evolving media landscape. The final print edition will appear Dec. 31, a Wednesday. www.ajc.com/business/202...

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

Yikes!!

MARTA is posting copaganda:(

First time seeing a passenger workout while riding MARTA. Someone is using resistance bands on the train. Taking transit allows people to do ANYTHING else other than driving.

I am not kidding when I say I would die for a MARTA bus driver

It’s still hilarious to me that MARTA special weekend schedules means they’re running heavy rail metro trains less frequently than my local bus lines

BREAKING: The marta board is appointing its Chief Legal Counsel, Jonathan Hunt as interim GM and CEO, effective immediately

MARTA’s board picked an interim CEO, and a committee that will advise him, after a month-long process that apparently included four secret search committee meetings: www.ajc.com/news/2025/08...

My new bus system is integrated with the Transit app and it’s fantastic. I wish MARTA would do that! I know MARTA is developing a new app though

I was like “omg so cute, this bench has starfish on it” and then I realized it’s sneaky anti-homeless architecture :(

BREAKING: Four drive belts were discovered “missing” from the motors on a MARTA escalator that malfunctioned and left 21 people inside the Vine City station with injuries, according to a report from the state agency that oversees escalator and elevator safety. (h/t @saraegregory.bsky.social)

Bummer — the art market I profiled in this week’s issue is canceled due to rain. ☔️

nothing like the marta train pulling into the station right as the bus you’re connecting to leaves :)

The match4gaza donations mentioned in the recent newsletter have been met, but you can continue supporting The Sameer Project’s South Gaza fund here: chuffed.org/project/1132...

Photo study, added a pigeon witch

in case you missed it: I’m moving to California but will be continuing the newsletter remotely!! I love Atlanta too much to abandon this project and I’m moving for personal/financial/family reasons (but also after 10 years a break from Atlanta will be kinda nice)

Beyond the BeltLine: Meet Kevin Randolph, Atlanta’s Beloved Singing Hypeman theatlantavoice.com/beltline-kev...

New issue out today! -Info and photos on GVG's art market this weekend 🎨 -See what you can find at the MARTA Market 🥬 -Some personal news 👀 trackingatlanta.ghost.io/summer-marke...

Rodney Taylor, who was detained by Ice in Georgia, was put in solitary confinement after complaining about flooding in his cell that he said was potentially dangerous for his electronic prosthetic legs.

New issue out today! -Info and photos on GVG's art market this weekend 🎨 -See what you can find at the MARTA Market 🥬 -Some personal news 👀 trackingatlanta.ghost.io/summer-marke...

for those of you who were wondering “wait, wasn’t this a newsletter and not just a bluesky account,” I have something for you this week. I know I say this like every few months but I promise this time

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the whole need walkable cities thing is so overdone. All cities are walkable if you know how to defeat a car in combat

Word on the transit discords is that MARTA is running some four-car trains today, possibly due to heat issues.

The view from King Memorial Station is always amazing, but this rain shower over Midtown is wild

just rode one of the 2024 pride buses :) artist: arrrtaddict

Too often, politicians address the symptoms (people biking on sidewalks) rather than the causes (lack of safe bike infrastructure). Focusing on symptoms might be politically expedient but doesn’t address the actual issues

“Beltline Rail will make the walking path too narrow for people who use mobility aids and wheelchairs!” The sidewalks we’re expected to use in Midtown:

I’ll write more about this in the future, but the bus stops near the Arthur M Blank Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta campus are just miserable. 97°F next to a six-lane road with no shade and few trees, and hourly buses. The NextGen bus route redesign can’t come quick enough.

hey atlanta friends :) we'll be at Charis Books tomorrow with a bunch of contributors to No Cop City, No Cop World talking about the book, the repression of the movement, and how you can support those facing charges - 7:30 pm! www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/no-cop...

Beginning September 8th, the Streetcar will be unavailable for three to four months as Georgia Power does urgent infrastructure repairs. There will be a shuttle van along the route.

So it would appear that @cityofatlantaga.bsky.social is Atlanta’s official Bluesky profile, and not @atlantageorgia.bsky.social, which is listed as their official profile and promoted on digital signs downtown.

📍 Selena S. Butler Park, 98 William Holmes Borders Sr. Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30312 Bottled water will be provided. Stay cool, stay safe, Atlanta.

As temperatures rise, the City of Atlanta is opening a cooling center to help residents stay safe and hydrated. The cooling center will be open today, Monday, July 28, Tuesday, July 29, and Wednesday, July 30 from 11 AM to 6 PM.

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I love that MARTA is holding a creative writing challenge! “Eight selected writers will have their story made into a digital animation and will win a 10-trip MARTA Breeze Card” Link to the challenge: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There will be a protest tonight in Centennial Olympic Park against Israel’s intentional, violent starvation of Palestine. To take MARTA, it is an 11-minute walk from GWCC/CNN center station or a 13-minute walk from Peachtree center station. It is also along the Streetcar route and bus route 26.

Reminder!

Check this out! At the TAZ indoor skatepark, run as a public service by the City of #Montreal , they’ve recycled an old MR63 métro train into a café. You even sit down to eat in old métro seats.

the bus I’m on currently has the date as January 1998 and the display as “in memoriam president carter” (a display from this January). but hey, it’s getting me to my destination

Thanks, @austinlouisray.bsky.social!!

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1978: The “Gang of 19” block two Denver city buses to protest the lack of accessibility on the city’s public transit. The demonstration led to Denver’s regional transit authority agreeing to make one-third of its buses wheelchair accessible. /1

BREAKING: A federal judge bans the Trump administration from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody if he’s released from a Tennessee jail.

If you’re a skeptic or if trying to donate to one family feels too overwhelming, here’s a thread of on-the-ground organizations to support amid the intentional, violent starvation of G-z- Source: wawog