MARTA Expansion

MARTA’s proposed budget keeps digging a hole into Atlanta’s expansion plans
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The overall More MARTA Atlanta Program adopted by the MARTA Board in 2018 allocated over 90 percent of new revenue to capital projects, but year after year the MARTA budget keeps shifting 50 percent or more of Atlanta’s expansion funds to running the existing system. That missing 40 percent represents over $40 million lost for FY 2024, or $1 billion lost over 25 years. If the trend continues it could leverage federal grants for projects shunted to “Tier 2” including 4 BeltLine rail segments and the Westside Streetcar. These five projects deliver high-capacity transit and connections to existing MARTA stations to Atlanta’s southside and westside communities.
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