Atlanta: MARTA GM: Rail system would ideally be double its size

[font size="1"]Atlanta's MARTA, Washington's METRO and San Francisco's BART were all built at about the same time. (Atlanta Business Chronicle/NBC)[/font]


ATLANTA -- MARTA was one of three transit agencies built at the same time - BART in San Francisco and METRO in Washington, D.C.

Both BART and METRO today have about 100 miles of rail, but MARTA only has 48 miles - giving fuel to the argument that it is a skeletal system.

But if its up to MARTA General Manager Keith Parker the transit agency will re-enter into an expansion mode as soon as fiscally possible.

"MARTA has only reached half of its potential," Parker told members of the Rotary Club of Atlanta on Monday. "We are a transit system we feel is poised to do much more, to be like Washington and San Francisco, which are 100-mile transit authorities." ..................(more)

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