Athens Transit is a public bus system in

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. The system was started in 1976, and today 20 routes operate throughout the city. The whole system is fare free. Most bus routes have the buses stop at a given location once per hour during operating hours. Most routes are designed as loops, with outbound buses on a given route not returning on the same streets. This can prove confusing, but major streets generally have two routes serving them: one outbound, and one inbound. Most routes terminate at the Athens Multi-Modal Transportation Center, which was built in 2006 on a

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. The Multi-Modal Center was a winner of the 2007 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture award from the American Institute of Steel Construction, and it is designed to accommodate a future " Brain Train" to Atlanta. Athens Transit and UGA Campus Transit buses were part of an early trial of

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/ref> Athens Transit was formerly known as "The Bus" but in 2018 it was changed to its current branding as "Athens-Clarke County Transit" as it was one of the few remaining A-CC services that did not refer to "Athens-Clarke" in its name.

External links

Real-time Athens Transit bus tracking

References

Bus transportation in Georgia (U.S. state) Transportation in Athens, Georgia Transit agencies in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-transport-stub