Athens Transit

{{Infobox Bus transit

| name = Athens Transit

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| image = Athens Transit Logo.png

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| image_caption = Old logo used by Athens Transit (until 2018)

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| founded = 1976

| headquarters = Athens, Georgia, United States

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| service_area = Athens-Clarke County

| service_type = Fixed-Route ("The Bus")
On-Demand Paratransit ("The Lift")

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| routes = 18

| destinations =

| stops = 500 {{cite web|url=http://www.athenstransit.com/miscfacts.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-11-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012222232/http://www.athenstransit.com/miscfacts.html |archivedate=2008-10-12 }}

| hubs = Athens Multi-Modal Transportation Center (primary)
Georgia Square Mall
North Ave. Piggly Wiggly

| stations =

| lounge = Athens Multi-Modal Transportation Center

| fleet =

| ridership = 6,905 during UGA school year, 4,291 May–July{{cite web|url=http://www.athenstransit.com/ridership.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-11-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821200610/http://www.athenstransit.com/ridership.html |archivedate=2008-08-21 }}

| fuel_type = Diesel

| operator = Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County{{cite web|url=http://www.athenstransit.com/historyofats.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-11-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517113557/http://www.athenstransit.com/historyofats.html |archivedate=2008-05-17 }}

| leader_type = Unified City/County Government

| leader = Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County

| website = http://www.athenstransit.com

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Athens Transit is a public bus system in Athens, Georgia, United States. The system was started in 1976, and today 20 routes operate throughout the city. The whole system is fare free.{{cite web | url=https://www.accgov.com/1770/Fare-free-Transit | title=Fares & Passes | Athens-Clarke County, GA - Official Website }} 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 brownfield near the North Oconee River. 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.[http://www.masstransitmag.com/web/online/Industry-Announcements/Citizen-Funded-Transit-Station-in-Athens--Ga-Wins-National-Design-Award/1$4278 Citizen-Funded Transit Station in Athens, Ga. Wins National Design Award]

Athens Transit and UGA Campus Transit buses were part of an early trial of biodiesel fuel during the 1996 Olympics.Goodrum, J. W. [http://www.biodiesel.org/resources/reportsdatabase/reports/fle/19971201_fle-005.pdf "Biodiesel Bus Demonstration in Atlanta '96 Olympics."]

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.