Re: [85attendees] ATL Travel Items

[Mary Barnes <[e-mail]>]

That's a good question.  Last time we were in Atlanta, you couldn't
walk 10 feet out the front door of the hotel without being asked for
money from the panhandlers.  I'm not suggesting those are necessarily
unsafe people, but personally, I would not be walking around downtown
Atlanta at that time of night by myself, in particular with luggage.
And, it looks like the panhandling issue is still a problem:
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/2012/09/06/panhandling-pressure-downtown/?cp=1

Mary.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:12 PM,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Is it safe to walk at night (after 10pm)from Peachtree Ctr Station to the Hilton?
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> From: "Pat Thaler" <[e-mail]>
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> To: John R Levine<[e-mail]>; [e-mail]<[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: [85attendees] ATL Travel Items (fwd)
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> Here are the directions from Peachtree Station to the Hilton from the Atlanta Hilton website:
>
> "Take the train north and exit at Peachtree Center Station. Take the Harris Street escalator or follow the directions for Peachtree Center Mall. You will go up a very steep escalator into the Mall. Take the walkway from the Mall to the parking garage. Take the elevator to the street. The hotel is on your right when you exit the garage."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of John R Levine
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> Subject: Re: [85attendees] ATL Travel Items (fwd)
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>> 1. For those arriving on international flights, is the MARTA station
>> accessible and if so how? (iirc, it is near the domestic exit.)
>
> For domestic passengers go downstairs to the interterminal train and take
> it to the terminal, a/k/a the T concourse.  You can walk from there to the
> MARTA station and to shuttles and taxi.
>
> For international passengers, due to stupid TSA rules you're considered
> not to have gone through security after you emerge from customs so you
> can't take the interterminal train.  You can take a free bus from the
> Red/zone 3 area of the curb to the domestic terminal or there are shuttles
> in the Green/zone 4 area that are supposed to take you downtown.  I
> wouldn't know, I always take the subway.
>
> One you're at the domestic terminal, to take the subway, unless you have a
> Breeze card, buy a ticket for $2.50 from a machine at the subway station,
> and take any train.  All trains from the airport stop at Peachtree Center.
>
> The last train leaves at 01:18 weeknights, 01:00 Saturday and Sunday
> nights. After that there's no reasonable alternative to a cab.
>
>> 1b. The site says exit at Peachtree Center but not how to find the
>> Hilton from there.
>
> It's less than a 10 minute walk.  Here's a map.
>
> https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Peachtree+St+NE&daddr=Hilton+Atlanta,+255+Courtland+Street+Northeast,+Atlanta,+GA+30303&hl=en&sll=33.759755,-84.385885&sspn=0.005307,0.008551&geocode=FS8hAwIdAFn4-g%3BFe4oAwId12n4-in_8i4MdwT1iDGXvin7jyOSlQ&oq=Peachtree+Center++Station,+Peachtree+Street+Northeast,+Atlanta,+GA,+United+States&dirflg=w&mra=dme&mrsp=0&sz=17&t=m&z=17
>
> R's,
> John
>
> PS: Am I the only person arriving in Atlanta by long distance train?
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