Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. 483 and 490 continue to Woodstock, and then 490 continues to Canton. Route 480, 483, and 490 serve Town Center. Route 463 serves Douglas County MMTC and West Douglas. Express route 476 serves Douglas County, Powder Springs and Hiram park and rides. There is also a Cumberland CID circulator shuttle.Ĭobb operates five GRTA Express routes, funded by GRTA. They are organized into three zones in Powder Springs and Austell. In 2015, Flex buses were added in Cobb County. As of 2010, it is unclear whether or not the new transit system would be operated by CCT, a new agency, or even another existing agency such as MARTA. The project would be funded and operated through both federal and local sources. At each end of the line, a circulator bus system has also been proposed bringing the total expected ridership for the new combined LRT/BRT system to nearly 100,000. The proposed line would be constructed and operational by 2019 with the expectation of nearly 50,000 riders daily by 2025. If constructed, the line would be approximately 14.5 miles (23.3 km) long with seven stations. In May 2010 Cobb's Board of Commissioners approved further funding to study a light rail line from the Cumberland/Galleria area to the Town Center/KSU area. A cross-suburb line over to Gwinnett County has also been proposed, intersecting with a future extended MARTA north line between Roswell and Sandy Springs in Fulton County. Other solutions proposed include special bus-only lanes on Interstate 75, and commuter rail into Cherokee County. The lack of sales tax revenue from the two counties stunted the growth of MARTA, however the GRTA created by former governor of Georgia Roy Barnes has been seeking to create other solutions, such as possible light rail to Cobb through the Cumberland Mall and Town Center at Cobb areas. Some buses also run on compressed natural gas (CNG) rather than diesel.Īlong with Gwinnett, Cobb voted against MARTA in the 1970s, and thus was left out of the system. External announcements are also made by voice, in addition to the normal electronic signs. This is done by pre-recorded voice announcements for the vision-impaired and LED message signs for the hearing-impaired. CobbLinc's annual operating budget is about $12.9 million (2004), from fares and the general county budget, as well as Federal grants.Īll buses make automatic announcements inside the bus of upcoming stops and major roads, and stop requests from passengers. Transfers are free between MARTA and CCT, though both transit agencies charge the same fare ($2.50) with a Breeze Card. Express routes also operate down to Atlanta, connecting with MARTA at the Arts Center station. Routes connect to the most populated areas of the county, including Mableton and Kennesaw. The hub is along South Marietta Parkway in Marietta, just west of the former Southern Polytechnic State University now the Marietta campus of Kennesaw State University. Operation CCT and CobbLinc buses at a park and rideĬobbLinc began operations in July 1989 (as Cobb Community Transit) and has had relatively strong ridership (3,793,253 total passengers in 2005) since then. (The others are Gwinnett County, which operates Ride Gwinnett and Clayton County, which formerly operated Clayton County C-TRAN but is now served by MARTA.) CobbLinc (formerly Cobb Community Transit) is the bus public transit system in Cobb County, Georgia, one of metro Atlanta's three most populous suburban counties.
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