March 5

Decatur Marta Station Artifact 2

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This was the impregnable gate, the source of profound dismay to those poor crestfallen souls who entered without a card or money to pass, and the over dramatized way down the Marta subway cars. The gate is easy to pass if you just scan a valid card to ride the subway.

March 5

Decatur Marta Station

The Decatur Marta Station is just like most other Marta stations, which means it was very busy and full of many different types of people.

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The Decatur Marta Station is located to the East of the heart of Atlanta. The neighborhood that exists around the stay seems busy and very much alive.

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Many of the objects located at the site were for information or for using the space. The picture above show the area you can your Breeze card and the gate you go through with that card. The whole site is laid out in a sequential order, you walk in on the left, get your card from the machine, and go through the gates or if you already have a card with credits on it you go right and enter the gates. Without a card the gate is near impregnable, though trying to force your way  in by climbing might work, but would more than likely get you arrested. Many of the colors represented by this site were neutral colors, gray, brown, white, and black. The area had some splashes of colors like the golden thingy that is on the ceiling, but beyond that the other colors of the color wheel were not found really found.

The over all site felt cold, and was only used as means to travel to others equally as cold and lonely. In this case by lonely I mean nobody other than me stayed there longer than it took to get their train. The large influxes of people that came from the bowels of the station always kind of made me nervous, due to my timid and shy personality. A few people even came up to me and asked for directions, and to the dismay of both of us, I could only tell them that I didn’t know the area any better than they did.

The site is used by any one who wants to get from point A to B, which includes anyone who can be carried through a gate or can use a card. The site doesn’t really need to advertise, because the site is a public transportation site and most people need to get around. The people who need to get from one place to another without a car of their own can be profoundly more mobile than they were on their feet.