Almost every major highway and every major Interstate highway in metro Atlanta passes through Fulton County Outside Atlanta proper Georgia 400 is the major highway through north Fulton and Interstate 85 to the southwest. Zone 1 covers the city's northwest side west of Downtown Atlanta and north of I-20 Zone 2 covers all of the city's northern area the Zone 3 area is located on the south/southeast and parts of southwest side of the city the Zone 4 area is located on the southwest side of Atlanta Zone 5 encompasses the central portion of APD's jurisdiction Zone 6 includes all but the northernmost part of Atlanta's Eastside. 8 Education Contents, MARTA operates buses and a subway system in the city of Atlanta Fulton Clayton and Dekalb counties while Cobb and Gwinnett counties operate their own independent Suburban Transit Systems that feed into MARTA This is a result of those counties' refusal to join the MARTA system (although Gwinnett is holding a vote in March 2019 to possibly join MARTA again) a situation which was originally closely related to white flight from the city It is the only US system in which the state does not provide any funds for operation or expansion instead relying entirely on a 1% sales tax in its three counties Due to the passage of a 1% sales tax in Clayton County on November 4 2014 MARTA replaced the defunct C-Tran system bringing buses and commuter rail to the county beginning March 2015 with full bus service in 2016 the Atlanta Streetcar a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) light rail loop connects Centennial Olympic Park and MARTA heavy rail subway to the Sweet Auburn district and points in between Xpress GA a suburban commuter bus service operated by the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority or GRTA has over 32 routes running from the suburbs and exurbs to downtown Atlanta in 12 metropolitan counties, J Georgia is the state with the third-lowest percentage of older people (65 or older) at 12.8 percent (as of 2015). 46 Bryse Wilson Eighth Street Apartments are apartment-style residence halls that opened in 1995 as housing for the athletes and journalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics as a part of the Olympic Village. Cy Young The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn is the largest Hindu temple in the United States East Wesley Road. Safety DeKalb (753,253) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? One of the entrances to the University of Georgia, 1% On curves the outer rail may be at a higher level than the inner rail This is called superelevation or cant This reduces the forces tending to displace the track and makes for a more comfortable ride for standing livestock and standing or seated passengers a given amount of superelevation is most effective over a limited range of speeds. Open meetings The CNN newsroom, An extinct fault line called the Brevard Fault runs roughly parallel to the Chattahoochee River but as its last movements were apparently prehistoric it is considered extinct and not a threat to the region Still minor earthquakes do rattle the area (and all of Georgia) occasionally One notable one was in April 2003 (magnitude 4.6) coming from the northwest its epicenter just across the state line in northeastern Alabama While many people slept through the 5A.M quake it caused a minor panic in others completely unaware of what was happening Similar earthquakes occur in this region called the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone often felt much more widely across the stronger crust of eastern North America as compared to the west Thus the 1886 Charleston South Carolina earthquake was also felt in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast it caused damage as far as central Alabama and West Virginia Two small earthquakes were also felt on the southeast side near Eatonton in early April 2009 the New Madrid Seismic Zone (near the Missouri-Tennessee borders) and the seismic zone producing the 1886 magnitude 7.3 earthquake are still capable of producing moderate or major earthquakes which the entire Atlanta area will feel moderately or even strongly.
! . . Out of the total population five years and older 83.3% spoke only English at home while 8.8% spoke Spanish 3.9% another Indo-European language and 2.8% an Asian language Atlanta's dialect has traditionally been a variation of Southern American English the Chattahoochee River long formed a border between the Coastal Southern and Southern Appalachian dialects Because of the development of corporate headquarters in the region attracting migrants from other areas of the country by 2003 Atlanta magazine concluded Atlanta had become significantly "de-Southernized." a Southern accent was considered a handicap in some circumstances in general Southern accents are less prevalent among residents of the city and inner suburbs and among younger people; they are more common in the outer suburbs and among older people At the same time some residents of the city express Southern variations of African-American English; Downtown Atlanta 4.1 Presidents 122 3020 The 1996 Summer Olympics took place in Atlanta the stadium that was built to host various Olympic events was converted to Turner Field the home of the Atlanta Braves through the 2016 season. .
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