MARTA station shut down for hours after person hit by train
MARTA officials say the crash happened around 7:30 a.m. There is no word on the person’s condition or identity. Initially, ...
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TORPY: Why does MARTA go where folks aren’t going?
Ridership on MARTA’s trains dropped 6% last year, according to Federal Transit Administration figures. It was, my colleague Sara Gregory wrote, one of the worst rail ridership drops in the ...
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Human error led to MARTA train derailment
A series of human errors is to blame for the MARTA train derailment that disrupted service for hours last December, officials said in a postmortem briefing this week. Train 103 was carrying 16 ...
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Fewer Atlantans are taking the train, but MARTA says numbers are off
MARTA rail ridership was down more than six percent in 2023 compared to 2022. The agency blames broken faregates for the lower reported numbers. Advocates call for more reliable transit beyond ...