After over a decade of absence, articulated buses are coming back to Atlanta. Eighteen of the double-length vehicles will join MARTA’s bus fleet next year, helping to account for the organization’s recent uptick in ridership. 
Is there a real need for buses twice the length of standard ones? Will they be able to make turns on Atlanta’s perpetually under-construction traffic-filled streets without sideswiping any poor sod foolish enough to park on the side of the road? Those are questions that can and will be answered in 2016, so for now just try to get used to dodging the streetcar before some of its six (twelve?) wheeled cousins join it on Atlanta’s streets.
Georgia Southern welcomed Dr. Jean Bartels as its new interim President Monday, the first female to hold that position at the University. Bartels has been at the school since 1999, and has been provost and vice president for academic affairs since 2012. She takes over for Brooks Keel, who left Statesboro to take the same job at Georgia Regents University in Augusta. Keel served as Georgia Southern’s President from 2010 to 2015 after coming over from his position as vice chancellor for research and economic development at Louisiana State University. He attended Augusta College for undergrad and received a doctorate from the Medical College of Georgia, both of which have since been rolled up into Georgia Regents University.
