A board vote that took less than a minute ended a process that took months: finding a new general manager and CEO of MARTA. Jeffrey Parker will take over leading the agency at a time of big expansion.
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MARTA HOSTS RETAIL CONCESSIONS INDUSTRY DAY
Event Highlights Opportunities at Rail Stations The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) hosted a retail concessions industry day on Wednesday, March 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at its headquarters on Piedmont Road in Atlanta. The event was a chance for food, beverage, and specialty retail vendors to learn about concessions opportunities at […]
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MARTA seeks to develop small site at Peachtree Center Station, near ATL Streetcar
MARTA is looking for a partner to develop a plum of a property, a sliver of land in Downtown Atlanta that provides ready access to the Atlanta Streetcar and MARTA’s Peachtree Center Station.
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MARTA (always) Matters. So Now What?
By Lyle V. Harris
We told you so. Or at least we tried.
Remember when MARTA was mostly treated as a punchline and a punching bag for anti-transit haters? I sure do.
About eight years ago, my former MARTA colleagues and I brainstormed a public awareness campaign to counter the trash-talking naysayers by extolling the untold virtues of the buses, trains and dedicated MARTA employees who help to keep the Atlanta region moving forward.
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Atlanta’s Changing Transportation Ecosystem
By: Sarah Kirsch and Daphne Bond-Godfrey, ULI Atlanta Atlanta’s traffic woes are a well-known story. Despite having the nation’s 9th largest transit system, we are still an auto-centric city and region, rife with congestion along our main corridors. The lesser known story, perhaps, is the remarkable level of investment and coordination currently underway among our […]
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MARTA selects another Parker to be its next CEO
MARTA’s Board of Directors Thursday selected Jeffrey A. Parker as its choice to be the agency’s next general manager and CEO.
Parker, who worked at MARTA as senior director of transportation operations from 2005 to 2008, currently is vice president of HNTB Corp., an infrastructure solutions firm that has worked closely with MARTA over the years.
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MARTA seeks federal lobbyist, though has kept same firm since 2009
MARTA is shopping for a federal lobbying team that is to work with the Trump administration. The question is whether MARTA is inclined to replace the firm it’s had on Capitol Hill since the Obama adminstration.
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A legislative leg up for Atlanta’s regional transit system
By Guest Columnist BRIAN GIST, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center
For years, the idea of a comprehensive regional transit system in metro Atlanta seemed unattainable. It’s hard to even imagine taking a train from Decatur to SunTrust Park, or from Duluth to Atlanta’s airport.
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Janette Sadik-Khan: When you change the street, you change the world
Repurposing pavement has a nice ring to it.
That was the message at the Feb. 13th annual meeting of the Midtown Alliance.
A person delivering the message was Janette Sadik-Khan, who changed many of the streets in New York City from being focused on cars to streets for everyone – including pedestrians and cyclists.
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MARTA DEBUTS FREE WI-FI ON BUSES AND TRAINS
Wi-Fi Lite Allows Riders to Browse Web, Connect to Social Media The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) now has free Wi-Fi on all buses and trains. The new connection allows riders to browse the web, send e-mails, read e-books, and connect to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. To use Wi-Fi on […]
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House, Senate publish transit rework bills, with clock ticking on state legislative session
Both the state House and state Senate seem to have agreed on a collective name for transit in metro Atlanta: The ATL. Now they have about six weeks left in their session to decide what that big ATL might be and how it will work.
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ARC Sets the Record Straight on Metro Atlanta Traffic
You may have read about the recent Inrix Global Traffic Scorecard, which ranked metro Atlanta’s traffic congestion as the 8th-worst globally. While that made headlines here, there’s a lot more to the story: Atlanta fares much better using another Inrix measure The Inrix report also ranks regions by percentage of driving time spent in congestion. In […]
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MARTA RAIL STATION TO HOUSE ‘SHIPPING CONTAINER VILLAGE’
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is providing space for a new development of small businesses and startups at its westernmost rail station, Hamilton E. Holmes. Over a dozen repurposed shipping containers will provide around 6,500 square feet of retail and office space. MARTA is partnering with the City of Atlanta and Invest Atlanta […]
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Emerging details on transit proposals spark questions among Atlanta lawmakers
A new, 10-member transit governance board is expected to be one among several proposals in the state Legislature that will be the first words in a long-awaited debate about how to deepen regional cooperation over transit, and possibly initiate substantive spending by the state for buses and rail.
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MARTA’S ARTBOUND PROGRAM COMMISSIONS MURALS IN FOUR RAIL STATIONS
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) has commissioned local artists to paint murals in four rail stations. Work was completed last week on a mural titled The People Could Fly at the Ashby Station on MARTA’s Blue/Green rail lines. The mural at Ashby was painted by Fahamu Pecou, with support from artists Denisha Claxton and Fabian […]
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No mirrored shades, earphones allowed on MARTA’s armed security guards
MARTA could not be more clear that no flashy attire or distracting headsets will be tolerated on the armed guards MARTA intends to hire to provide security for the transport of fare box revenues. Not even the cliché mirror sunglasses made famous in the movie, ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ are to be allowed.
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New year brings new talks of prospects for metro Atlanta transit expansion
Listen around official Atlanta at the beginning of 2018, and it seems that buses and rail might be one of the themes of the year.
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STATE OF MARTA EVENT HIGHLIGHTS YEAR’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) will host the annual State of MARTA breakfast on Friday, Jan. 5 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the W Hotel Midtown. The event, co-hosted by the Council for Quality Growth, provides a financial and service report card for 2017 and sets goals for the new year. Atlanta journalist […]
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MARTA SAVES MILLIONS DURING BOND REFUNDING
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Board of Directors approved a resolution to refund $56.8 million of its series 2012A bonds, saving the Authority $6.5 million in net present value of future interest costs. MARTA’s average interest savings is $588,000 per year. MARTA moved quickly on this partial refunding to take advantage of favorable […]
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed seeking to name Ryan Glover to MARTA board
With just a month to go before he leaves office, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is recommending a fellow Howard University alum to serve as a city appointee to MARTA’s board of directors.
Reed’s appointment of Ryan Glover will go before the Committee on Council and then the full City Council at their respective meetings on Monday.
