! King Kelly Unlike highways or road networks where capacity is disaggregated into unlinked trips over individual route segments railway capacity is fundamentally considered a network system As a result many components are causes and effects of system disruptions Maintenance must acknowledge the vast array of a route's performance (type of train service origination/destination seasonal impacts) line's capacity (length terrain number of tracks types of train control) trains throughput (max speeds acceleration/deceleration rates) and service features with shared passenger-freight tracks (sidings terminal capacities switching routes and design type)! During the 1970s like with many large cities within the United States Atlanta's population began to decline by 1990 the population was 394,017 down almost 20% from its population in 1970 which was 496,973 in addition the city center and surrounding areas began to go through an urban decay and crime spiked significantly throughout the 1980s Along with many other major cities in the United States Atlanta was hard hit by the crack epidemic of most of the 1980s to early 1990s in 1994 Atlanta was ranked the most dangerous city in the country by the Morgan Quitno Press; Atlanta is home to professional franchises for five major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer Atlanta has also recently added a professional box lacrosse team the Georgia Swarm of the National Lacrosse League and a professional field lacrosse team the Atlanta Blaze of Major League Lacrosse, 8 External links 10 Infrastructure Seychelles (9), The presiding officer of the Senate is the President of the Senate or Lieutenant Governor Like the United States Senate a President Pro Tempore is elected by the Senate from among its members the President Pro Tempore acts as President in case of the temporary disability of the President in case of the death resignation or permanent disability of the President or in the event of the succession of the President to the executive power the President Pro Tempore becomes President the Senate also has as an officer the Secretary of the Senate. Fifty-five thousand students are enrolled in 106 schools in Atlanta Public Schools some of which are operated as charter schools Atlanta is served by many private schools including without limitation Atlanta Jewish Academy Atlanta International School the Westminster Schools Pace Academy the Lovett School the Paideia School Holy Innocents' Episcopal School and Roman Catholic parochial schools operated by the Archdiocese of Atlanta. 24 Adeiny Hechavarria Elections 12 Notable people Korean 0.51% Midtown Atlanta or Midtown is a high-density commercial and residential neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia the exact geographical extent of the area is ill-defined due to differing definitions used by the city residents and local business groups However the commercial core of the area is anchored by a series of high-rise office buildings condominiums hotels and high-end retail along Peachtree Street between North Avenue and 17th Street Midtown situated between Downtown to the south and Buckhead to the north is the second-largest business district in Metro Atlanta in 2011 Midtown had a resident population of 41,681 and a business population of 81,418. .
Barrow (79,061) Atlanta Dream Basketball Women's National Basketball Association State Farm Arena Atlanta 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. 2010 2,510,119 30,989 61.9% 13th 17th Ridership increased during the first decade of the 21st century after implementation of capital improvements in the NEC and rises in automobile fuel costs the inauguration of the high-speed Acela Express in late 2000 generated considerable publicity and led to major ridership gains However through the late 1990s and very early 21st century Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other expenditures to break even by 2002 it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement in early 2002 David L Gunn replaced Warrington as president In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured Highways airports and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees highway fuel and road taxes and in the case of the General Fund from general taxation Gunn dropped most freight express business and worked to eliminate deferred maintenance. Colonial discontentment grew with the passage of the 1773 Tea Act which reduced taxes on tea sold by the East India Company in an effort to undercut competition and Prime Minister North's ministry hoped that this would establish a precedent of colonists accepting British taxation policies Trouble escalated over the tea tax as Americans in each colony boycotted the tea and those in Boston dumped the tea in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 when the Sons of Liberty dumped thousands of pounds of tea into the water Tensions escalated in 1774 as Parliament passed the laws known as the Intolerable Acts which greatly restricted self-government in the colony of Massachusetts These laws also allowed British military commanders to claim colonial homes for the quartering of soldiers regardless whether the American civilians were willing or not to have soldiers in their homes the laws further revoked colonial rights to hold trials in cases involving soldiers or crown officials forcing such trials to be held in England rather than in America Parliament also sent Thomas Gage to serve as Governor of Massachusetts and as the commander of British forces in North America. Long freight train crossing the Stoney Creek viaduct on the Canadian Pacific Railway in southern British Columbia, 1940 3,123,723 7.4% Inman Middle School Surrounding Atlanta's three high-rise districts are the city's low- and medium-density neighborhoods where the craftsman bungalow single-family home is dominant the eastside is marked by historic streetcar suburbs built from the 1890s-1930s as havens for the upper middle class These neighborhoods many of which contain their own villages encircled by shaded architecturally-distinct residential streets include the Victorian Inman Park Bohemian East Atlanta and eclectic Old Fourth Ward on the westside and along the BeltLine on the eastside former warehouses and factories have been converted into housing retail space and art galleries transforming the once-industrial areas such as West Midtown into model neighborhoods for smart growth historic rehabilitation and infill construction in southwest Atlanta neighborhoods closer to downtown originated as streetcar suburbs including the historic West End while those farther from downtown retain a postwar suburban layout including Collier Heights and Cascade Heights home to much of the city's affluent African American population Northwest Atlanta contains the areas of the city to west of Marietta Boulevard and to the north of Martin Luther King Jr Drive including those neighborhoods remote to downtown such as Riverside Bolton and Whittier Mill which is one of Atlanta's designated Landmark Historical Neighborhoods Vine City though technically Northwest adjoins the city's Downtown area and has recently been the target of community outreach programs and economic development initiatives; ; As of 2004 7.7% of Georgia's population was reported as under 5 years of age 26.4% under 18 and 9.6% were 65 or older Also as of 2004 females made up approximately 50.6% of the population and African Americans made up approximately 29.6%. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the principal rapid transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting of 48 miles (77 km) of rail track with 38 train stations MARTA operates almost exclusively in Fulton and DeKalb counties with bus service to two destinations in Cobb county and the Cumberland Transfer Center next to the Cumberland Mall and a single rail station in Clayton County at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport MARTA also operates a separate paratransit service for disabled customers as of 2009 the average total daily ridership for the system (bus and rail) was 482,500 passengers.
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