Although car-dependent suburbs continue to spread across the nation, they’re not as popular as you might assume.

The days of snagging a budget-friendly home in Cleveland, Milwaukee or other affordable housing hubs around the nation might be gone for good.

Atlanta is a notoriously car-dependent city. So it's no surprise that the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), which began running 42 years ago, has always been a bit of an underdog.