“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities The built environment often does not meet the needs of all community members, so intertwined are the physical and social dimensions …
I was fortunate to be able to attend the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) annual conference and Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center in October of 2017. Hailed as the largest transit conference in the United States, it only made sense that the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Atlanta’s …
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, or MARTA, is the public transportation agency in Atlanta, Georgia. Every day, MARTA transports 432,900 riders in metropolitan Atlanta across the city. The Authority currently provides heavy rail, bus, and paratransit transportation in 3 of the 39 counties that make up Atlanta’s metropolitan statistical …
