The Atlanta business community and Mayor Andre Dickens expressed concern about the state of MARTA, and they vowed that the transit agency would be a top priority in 2025.
MARTA was a focus of the Dec. 13 meeting of the highly influential Atlanta Committee for Progress (ACP), an organization that includes top business, civic and academic leaders working in tandem with the mayor of Atlanta.
“MARTA was a big topic,” Dickens said in an exclusive interview after the private meeting. “Business leaders think that there’s room for improvement around service delivery. There was a talk about what the ideal state of MARTA would be, how their workers could get to work and on time performance. That was some of the talk about how to help with ridership and about building communities around MARTA stations.”…