{"id":4795,"date":"2015-07-16T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2015-07-16T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:18:16","slug":"metropolitan-atlanta-rapid-transit-authority-marta-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/North-Avenue-Station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4797\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/North-Avenue-Station-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet 047, Site Plan, North Avenue Station, 1968. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/North-Avenue-Station-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/North-Avenue-Station.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheet 047, Site Plan, North Avenue Station, 1968. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Please welcome us in congratulating Georgia State University Library\u00a0on their newest online resource, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/marta\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This collection is comprised of more than 300 maps and\u00a0other documents that\u00a0date back to MARTA&#8217;s beginning in the mid-1960s, and depict the planning decisions that the\u00a0organization made\u00a0during the 1960s and early 1970s. There are examples of both projects that came to fruition, and those that did not.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/wabe.org\/post\/old-marta-maps-photos-and-sketches-are-now-online\" target=\"_blank\">available\u00a0at\u00a0WABE&#8217;s blog<\/a>, which includes an\u00a0audio version of the story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome us in congratulating Georgia State University Library\u00a0on their newest online resource, the\u00a0Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection. This collection is comprised of more than 300 maps and\u00a0other documents that\u00a0date back to MARTA&#8217;s beginning in the mid-1960s, and depict the planning decisions that the\u00a0organization made\u00a0during the 1960s and early 1970s. There are examples &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,175],"tags":[11,23,22,13,242,293,290,291],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-dlg-collections","category-new-collections","tag-atlanta-ga","tag-civil-rights-sunbelt-georgia-1945-1980s","tag-cobb-county-ga","tag-fulton-county-ga","tag-georgia-state-university-library","tag-marta","tag-transportation","tag-urban-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}