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In October 1970 Congress passed and President Richard Nixon signed into law the Rail Passenger Service Act Proponents of the bill led by the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) sought government funding to ensure the continuation of passenger trains They conceived the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (NRPC) a private entity that would receive taxpayer funding and assume operation of intercity passenger trains the original working brand name for NRPC was Railpax but shortly before the company started operating it was changed to Amtrak There were several key provisions:. A 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. First they provided a highly efficient network for shipping freight and passengers across a large national market the result was a transforming impact on most sectors of the economy including manufacturing retail and wholesale agriculture and finance the United States now had an integrated national market practically the size of Europe with no internal barriers or tariffs all supported by a common language and financial system and a common legal system, Other rugby union teams include the Atlanta Harlequins who ranked No 2 in the United States in Division 1 for women's clubs under USA Rugby the governing body for rugby in the United States From 2014 to 2016 the suburb of Kennesaw hosted the USA Women's Sevens an event in the annual World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in the sevens version of the sport but that event has since moved to Las Vegas; Georgia has 85 public colleges universities and technical colleges in addition to over 45 private institutes of higher learning Among Georgia's public universities is the flagship research university the University of Georgia founded in 1785 as the country's oldest state-chartered university and the birthplace of the American system of public higher education the University System of Georgia is the presiding body over public post-secondary education in the state the System includes 29 institutions of higher learning and is governed by the Georgia Board of Regents Georgia's workforce of more than 6.3 million is constantly refreshed by the growing number of people who move there along with the 90,000 graduates from the universities colleges and technical colleges across the state including the highly ranked University of Georgia Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. July 26 1969 Atlanta Georgia business directory 1790-1960 1900-1990 Turner Field.

. MARTA serves most of the county and along with Clayton and Dekalb County Fulton pays a 1% sales tax to fund it MARTA train service in Fulton is currently limited to the cities of Atlanta Sandy Springs East Point and College Park as well as the airport Bus service covers most of the remainder except the rural areas in the far southwest North Fulton residents have been asking for service to extend the North Line ten miles (16 km) up the Georgia 400 corridor from Perimeter Center to the fellow edge city of Alpharetta However as the only major transit system in the country that its state government will not fund there is no money to expand the system Sales taxes now go entirely to operating maintaining and refurbishing the system Xpress GA/ RTA provides commuter bus service from the outer suburbs of Fulton County the city of Sandy Springs to Midtown and Downtown Atlanta! Dragon Con is a yearly multigenre convention with an associated parade Dragon Con's 2014 attendance was 63,000 Races. In the 2010 Census Atlanta was recorded as the nation's fourth-largest majority-black city it has long been known as a center of African-American political power education economic prosperity and culture often called a black mecca Some African-American residents of Atlanta have followed an influx of whites to newer housing in the suburbs in the early 21st century From 2000 to 2010 the city's black population decreased by 31,678 people shrinking from 61.4% of the city's population in 2000 to 54.0% in 2010, Maddux Buenos Aires Argentina Reptiles include the eastern diamondback copperhead and cottonmouth snakes as well as alligators; amphibians include salamanders frogs and toads There are about 79 species of reptile and 63 amphibians known to live in Georgia.