GA: MARTA Board Delays Action on Gwinnett Transit Contract

    Aug. 3, 2018
    The MARTA Board of Directors on Thursday postponed action on a deal that could allow the agency to expand into Gwinnett County, for decades a hotbed of resistance to transit.

    Source The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    The MARTA Board of Directors on Thursday postponed action on a deal that could allow the agency to expand into Gwinnett County, for decades a hotbed of resistance to transit.

    The contract would allow MARTA to assume control of Gwinnett’s existing bus service, to extend rail service along I-85 and to operate transit in the county through 2057.

    It’s a deal that would have been inconceivable even a few years ago, and underscores how dramatically attitudes toward transit have changed in Georgia’s second-largest county.

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