Author Archives: MARTA

The MARTA board of directors recently recognized long-serving board members from Atlanta and Clayton County who stepped down or reached their end of their term and elected new board officers for 2023. Atlanta board members Robbie Ashe and Reginald Snyder announced at the December board meeting that they will be stepping down from the board, […]

MARTA will replace its entire heavy rail fleet over the next several years with 224 railcars (56 four-car train sets) purchased from Stadler in 2019 for $646 million. The new railcar bodies were constructed by Stadler in Hungary and are on their way to Salt Lake City to be outfitted before returning to Atlanta to go into service […]

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) 2022 Triennial Safety Audit of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) finds a strong commitment to safety and no major safety gaps or concerns. The audit examined MARTA’s heavy and light rail departments including operations and maintenance, training and communications, and equipment, structures, and signals. As required by […]

Holiday Cheer Shared Systemwide Through December MARTA and its Art in Transit program Artbound invite you to celebrate the holidays with a trip through MARTA Land. Throughout the month of December, there will be customer appreciation events, live music and performances, Breeze card giveaways and free rides on MARTA’s holiday-themed buses. Dec. 4 – 31 […]

MARTA has donated a railcar from the Authority’s original fleet to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth. The donation of the 42-year old railcar is one of several activities planned as MARTA transitions to its new railcar fleet. Railcar #509 was built by Société Franco-Belge and placed into service in 1981 along with 20 other identical […]

MARTA honors and celebrates bus operator Coy Dumas, Jr. for his 50 years of service. A native of Adamsville, Mr. Dumas joined MARTA, then known as Atlanta Transit, in 1972 as a bus operator. He has run routes solely in west Atlanta over the years, and currently operates Route 853 out of West Lake Station […]

Influential Artists of Color Explore the Pandemic, Racial Reckoning Through Music, Words & Film; Consider Question of “Where Do We Go Next?” MARTA’s public art program Artbound, along with local arts collective NEXT Atlanta announce an interactive, multi-genre art performance that is the culmination of the social action arts campaign “The NEXT Movement”. Launched in September, the first […]

MARTA and Columbia Ventures, LLC, have received the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) 2022 Regional Excellence Award for Innovative Development for the Edgewood/Candler Park transit-oriented development (TOD). The ARC Regional Excellence Awards honor visionary projects that improve quality of life, transit accessibility, housing affordability, and economic development, while advancing social equity and community resiliency in metro […]

The MARTA Board of Directors has voted to confirm Collie Greenwood as the Authority’s new general manager and chief executive officer. “I am honored and humbled by this opportunity,” said Greenwood. “I love transit and have known since my days of driving a bus how vital it is to people and their communities. I am eager […]

MARTA Reach Served Thousands of Riders Over Six Months in Clayton, DeKalb, & Fulton Counties MARTA, in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, is evaluating MARTA Reach, a six-month pilot rideshare program that connected riders to-and-from MARTA bus and rail. The pilot ran from March through August, providing over 7,500 trips and serving 8,335 […]

The MARTA Board of Directors approved a resolution authorizing MARTA to enter into negotiations with a development joint venture for the transit-oriented development (TOD) of the Bankhead rail station, the western terminus of the Green Line. The joint venture is led by the Peebles Corporation, one of the largest minority-owned real estate development firms in […]

Fund to Preserve Affordable Units at Orchard Walk Apartments Located Near Planned South DeKalb Transit Hub  The Greater Atlanta Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Preservation Fund provided financing for Ulysses Development Group (UDG) and Sunrise Affordable Housing (SAH) to acquire Orchard Walk Apartments, for the preservation of a 204-unit affordable housing project located on Flat Shoals Parkway […]

MARTA announces the completion of the Edgewood/Candler Park transit-oriented development (TOD) on the Blue/Green Line in DeKalb County. Since its groundbreaking in 2016, the 6.4-acre TOD has become home to the Spoke and Quill apartment complexes, including 20 percent affordable housing units, Moving in the Spirit, a creative youth development program, office space, several retail […]

MARTA and Soccer in the Streets, along with the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta United Foundation held a community celebration and soccer tournament to mark the official opening of StationSoccer at Lindbergh Center rail station. The soccer pitch, which is adjacent to MARTA headquarters on Piedmont Rd. in Atlanta opened in 2020 and the […]

MARTA’s public art program Artbound, along with local arts collective NEXT Atlanta will launch the NEXT Movement, a multi-platform arts and social action campaign. A movement fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning spurred by the murder of George Floyd and others, the NEXT Movement brings together five of Atlanta’s most influential artists of color […]

MARTA has received an upgrade in its bond credit rating given by Fitch Ratings after demonstrating a sustained maintenance of liquidity and financial resilience. Fitch upgraded MARTA’s Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and outstanding sales tax revenue bonds to ‘AA,’ signifying the Authority is unlikely to default on its debt repayments. “As MARTA fortifies its workforce […]

Funding to Purchase 25 Electric Buses & Charging Infrastructure to Serve West Atlanta MARTA’s nationally recognized Sustainability Commitment Program received a federal funding boost recently with the award of a $19.3 million Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Low or No Emission Grant which will be used to purchase 25 electric buses and charging infrastructure. The buses […]

Former Atlanta DOT Commissioner to Oversee Authority’s Capital Improvement Program Expansion & Innovation MARTA has named Josh Rowan as its new Deputy General Manager, where he will oversee the Authority’s ambitious and expansive Capital Improvement Program (CIP). Rowan has 26 years of program and construction management experience, delivering more than $5 billion in facility and […]

Project Receives Resounding Bipartisan Support from Local, State & Federal Government MARTA has been awarded a $25 million grant through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program to help transform the exterior of Five Points rail station in downtown Atlanta. The Five Points Transformation Project includes structural upgrades that will […]

Rinse + Repeat Features Stenciled Poetry That Appears When it Rains MARTA’s public art program Artbound announces the debut of Rinse + Repeat, a unique art project featuring the work of Atlanta poets. Poems are stenciled onto the concrete at ten metro Atlanta bus shelters and are invisible until they are rained upon. “We are […]