Post#2 » by parson » Fri Feb 8, 2013 1:48 am
I'm not an Atlanta native - I live out of state and drive in once or twice per year. However, the public transit in Atlanta is MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority). This is from their website:
MARTA to the University of Georgia
Aug 2
Posted by MARTA Guide
One of MARTA Guide’s readers requested directions to the University of Georgia. This one is tricky. For one, the University of Georgia is in Athens, GA and not Atlanta, and MARTA only operates in Fulton County in the Atlanta Metro area.
However, Southeastern Stages provides a transit service from Atlanta to Athens at 10:15am and 6:45pm. The Atlanta pick up is at the Greyhound Station at 232 Forsyth Street, which is just outside the S1 Garnett station on the north/south rail line. You can call 404-584-1728 for the station, or 404-591-2750 Monday – Friday between the hours of 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM to verify trip information. Email is
driver@sestages.com.
Southeastern Stages also travels to Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Asheville, Columbia and more.
The link is
http://martaguide.com/2010/08/02/marta- ... f-georgia/ if you want to look at it.
The link to Southeastern Stages is
http://www.southeasternstages.com/home.homeLook up MARTA's website. They'll instruct you as to which lines to take to get to Phillips. That particular link is
http://martaguide.com/2009/07/28/marta- ... ips-arena/ The first line says this, "Philips Arena is one of the easiest destinations to get to on MARTA. It essentially has its own train station, the Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN station on the blue/green rail line, just one stop west of Five Points."
Hopefully, a local will answer your question better than I did.
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