CITY TRANSIT HISTORY
1871-1891 - Atlanta Street Railroad Co.
1891-1899 - Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Co.
1899-1901 - Atlanta Railway & Power Co.
1901-1911 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
1911-1926 - Georgia Railway & Power Co. (United Gas Improvement Co.)
1926-1929 - Georgia Power Co. (Southeastern Power & Light Co.)
1929-1949 - Georgia Power Co. (Commonwealth & Southern Corp.)
1949 - streetcars discontinued
1937-1963 - operated trolleybuses
1949-1950 - Georgia Power Co. (Southern Co.)
1950-1972 - Atlanta Transit System
HAS RAPID TRANSIT (opened 1979)
CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEMS
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
Serves Fulton, De Kalb Counties
Additional metropolitan counties:
Connecting fixed route systems
Cobb County (Marietta) - Cobb Community Transit
Clayton County - Clayton County Transit
Gwinnett County - Gwinnett County Transit
Commuter service
Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
Xpress
Serves Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, Rockdale Counties
New additional metropolitan counties:
Dawson County (Dawsonville) - Dawson Transit
Spalding (Griffin) county - rural system
Butts, Lamar, Pike, Cherokee, Pickens Counties - regional rural systems
Bartow, Forsyth, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Paulding Counties - rural systems
Barrow, Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Jasper, Meriwether, Newton (Covington), Rockdale, Walton Counties - no regional transit service
OUTLYING TRANSIT HISTORY (COVINGTON)
1888-1889 - Covington & Oxford Street Railroad
After 1889 - Covington & Oxford Street Railway Co.
Streetcars discontinued
Private bus co. in 1952 - Callaway Coach Co.
OUTLYING TRANSIT HISTORY (GRIFFIN)
After 1891 - Griffin Street Railway Co.
Streetcars discontinued
Private bus co. in 1952 - Griffin Motor Coaches
OUTLYING TRANSIT HISTORY (MARIETTA)
Private bus co. in 1952 - Marietta Coach Co.
INTERURBAN TRANSIT HISTORY (ATLANTA-MARIETTA)
1905-1911 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
1911-1926 - Georgia Railway & Power Co. (United Gas Improvement Co.)
1926-1929 - Georgia Power Co. (Southeastern Power & Light Co.)
1929-1946 - Georgia Power Co. (Commonwealth & Southern Corp.)
1946-1948 - Atlanta Northern Lines
1947 - interurban trains discontinued
After 1948 - Southeastern Greyhound Lines