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“There’s a lot of places where Atlanta’s well-suited for denser development,” Berman continued. “Atlanta’s a place with good bones, especially the intown neighborhoods which were originally built during the streetcar era. “I think the maps say that there’s a lot of opportunity in Atlanta, especially given that More MARTA is now a go,” he said. His Atlanta works, he told the local Reddit community, were initially an effort to help a friend navigate MARTA’s rail system more easily, but the results provide commentary on the state of the city’s transit system, too. “Most of the expressway system was built in Atlanta because it had the support of voters, while comparable MARTA expansion to deal with Atlanta’s sprawl was never really done to the same level.”ĭue to New Year's Eve St closures, Streetcar service is suspended for the remainder of the evening.- MARTA January 1, 2019 The objective is to highlight the fact that “infrastructure decisions our politicians make don’t exist in a vacuum,” said Berman. “In every city I’ve been in-whether it’s Atlanta, L.A., or Memphis-the universal experience is traffic, which is what inspired me to start drawing these maps in the first place,” he said. New York-based artist and lawyer Jake Berman, who crafts and sells prints of transit systems in cities around the globe, told Curbed Atlanta he’s motivated to create his maps by the car congestion he experiences everywhere he goes.

The official map shown on MARTA’s website. Imagine how different Atlanta’s functionality would be if those multilane highways were at least accompanied by transit lines. What’s the solution? How about we start with thought-provoking visuals?Īn artful urbanist has redesigned a map of MARTA-and overlaid a depiction of Atlanta’s expressway system-that highlights just how dominant the city’s automobile infrastructure is. It doesn’t take a cartographer to tell you that Atlanta isn’t exactly a shining example of modern-day people-moving systems.īy traditional urbanist theory, MARTA’s reach is far too limited, the Atlanta Streetcar line is much too small and slow ( shutting down when travelers need it most), and too few people utilize the city’s public transit systems to unburden its car-choked highways.