With that feedback, MARTA will prepare a recommended plan for consideration by its board of directors next summer. To connect with MARTA, join Facebook today. It also will conduct an online survey on its website until mid-January. / Forest Pkwy: It is proposed this route operate bi-directional along. In December it will present the same scenarios in a series of online meetings. The agency has scheduled four in-person hearings this month to solicit public feedback. Instead, it’s proposing two extremes to encourage people to understand how the trade-offs might affect them. MARTA stressed that it is not proposing either of these scenarios as a final plan.
Service on the rest of the routes would operate every 30 to 60 minutes. The other scenario MARTA will present is similar to existing service: It would have 108 routes - including some service to new areas - but only eight of them would run every 15 minutes. “That’s the kind of trade-off we want people to think about.” Local service between: Marietta Transfer Center, Marietta Park-and-Ride Lot, Marietta Square. “You might have to walk a bit further, but you won’t have to wait as long once you get there,” Alhadeff said. But 25 of those routes would provide service at least every 15 minutes - up from eight under the old system.Īs customers found out during the pandemic, that would mean longer walks to bus stops for many people. Under that scenario, MARTA would cut the number of routes from 110 to 52. The first involves something like what it provided during the pandemic - more frequent service on its busiest routes, but with fewer routes. MARTA will present the public with two hypothetical scenarios for consideration. Instead, she said the goal is to make service more efficient and ensure it’s meeting the needs of customers. Alhadeff said the goal is not to save money - the redesign will be budget-neutral. Now MARTA wants to rethink its bus service. The route intersects the Five Points station, making it a popular route. Holmes Station on the Westside and the Edgewood / Candler Park Station on the Eastside.
But ridership remains about half what it was before the pandemic. This route operates East/West though urban areas of Downtown Atlanta, primarily on Martin Luther King Jr.
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MARTA restored full bus service in the spring.