r/MARTA

How feasible would it be for there to be bus lanes on congested corridors? As alot of us are aware, once rush hour hits the bus times become suggestions with many being 15-30+ minutes late (as an 11 rider, this sucks, and I'll also be using this route as a reference).

10th Street between Northside Drive and The Connector/West Peachtree for example. This stretch serves the 11, 12, and 14, as well as being a high frequency corridor between West Midtown and Midtown Station. Another being Northside Drive (at LEAST) between 17th and 10th Streets (though I'd prefer all the way to 75). Both of these segments get VERY congested during rush hour, while also serving dense areas and the GA Tech campus. I know the Clifton Corridor is a congested zone too.

Outside of BRT projects, bus lanes on the aforementioned sections and on other congested corridors could really speed up our bus network. Many of these routes got increased frequencies but we won't experience it if traffic keeps causing massive delays.

I take route 140 now hoping it would be at the very least more reliable after taking away my original bus route and adding an hour to my trip. But it still has the same number of cancellations as the original bus routes and I have to wake up earlier, get home later, and i have to walk miles now to get to my work? This is crazy.

The new bus roll out is fucking terrible if MARTA can’t even make the buses run on time. All the Rapid A buses are bunched up in Downtown, and I’ve been standing at the temporary stop for over 45 minutes without seeing a single bus. I’ve seen more garbage collectors than buses, and the one bus wasn’t even for the Rapid A line.

Edit: four buses rolled by in a row, couldn’t make this up. What’s the point of running four buses stacked on top of each other?

this is part of my commute home, and several times over the past couple months the EB blue line train has completely stopped at five points, everyone has had to get off, and the train then departs in order for the next train to come. this has often caused a 30+ min delay.

anyone else notice this happening and/or know why? is it only the EB blue line at five points or other lines too?

The Build More Housing Near Transit Act would push localities to allow more housing near rail stations as a condition of certain federal transit funding. It's the kind of carrot-and-stick that actually matters for a city like ATL, where MARTA exists but a huge share of the land within walking distance of stations is zoned for single-family homes or surface parking. An already positive sign is the ATL Zoning 2.0, the first full rewrite of Atlanta's zoning ordinance in 40 years. Draft V2 was released last December, public comment closed in April, and City Council is taking it up this spring/summer. Using that momentum, we can strike while the iron is hot and can push for more going into August when all the reps will be in their districts.

I wanted to share this advocacy template document to get people a way in to local political advocacy. It directly applies to Build More, but if you have another bill you want to use, feel free to talk about that instead. The materials embedded would still apply. See the document here.

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, "urbanism" refers to how cities get built and how people move through them. The version a lot of us interested in it push for emphasizes transit, mixed-use zoning, and being able to handle daily errands without a car. Atlanta has more latent potential here than almost any Sun Belt city (the BeltLine proved people want walkable neighborhoods when they're allowed to exist) but the policy hasn't caught up to the demand but that can change. See the linked document for more details and statistics you can bring up in discussions on the topic.

I am flying to Atlanta late at night next Sunday. I ride MARTA very frequently to and from work, and have ridden a couple times after 9 pm, but I am deciding whether to take it from the airport to Lindbergh. I am female, short, have one backpack. I was totally fine with doing it but I started getting scared after realizing I’m not really familiar with stations south of Peachtree Center.

I’ve pretty much grown up in the metro atl area my entire life and as I grow older and see other cities I get so upset about Marta and dream about it expanding properly one day lol. It would be nice to not have to rely on my car but alas….just wanted to vent about that. I even get on MARTAs website on their expansion plans and always get disappointed to see the constant changes and lack of actual things happening. Wish there was something that could be done

Hi all! Thanks to all the beta testers who gave feedback and tried out Terminus for Android. I am happy to report it is now live in the Play Store for everyone to download and use! Terminus is a 3rd party MARTA app for tracking buses, trains, getting realtime arrival data, viewing maps, getting directions to stops, and more.

Please let me know what you think!

The iOS app is still available as well. Links are on the website https://rideterminus.app/

My wife and I are were taking the red line from north springs to the airport yesterday and between the Lindbergh and arts centers I pulled out my phone to take photo of the Buckhead skyline as it was a beautiful day when all of a sudden a man walking the down the aisle grabbed the phone out of my hand and started walking away. I got up and he started yelling why are you taking a photo of me and was very upset. I got up to try get my phone back and told him I was just taking a picture of the outside and he got more upset and the threw the phone across the whole carriage and it broke. He proceeded to walk away to the next carriage and my wife found my phone on the ground fully broken and unable to work besides a corner of it. I was in a state of shock and also was scared if went after him he may have a weapon.

Is there anything I can do for this? Somehow my phone took a video of some of the interaction (even though I was on picture mode) and I was able to salvage it. Upset as I am big advocate of MARTA..