GA: Transit Plan May Test Changing Vision Of Atlanta’s Suburbs
May 3, 2018
In traffic-plagued metro Atlanta, a plan to expand the public transit system could soon test whether the once predominantly white suburbs have eased their longstanding resistance to the notion, which has been the subject of a decadeslong debate centering
Source WABE
In traffic-plagued metro Atlanta, a plan to expand the public transit system could soon test whether the once predominantly white suburbs have eased their longstanding resistance to the notion, which has been the subject of a decadeslong debate centering on race.
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority was created in 1965 as the city’s primary operator of public train and bus services, but neighboring suburban counties have consistently voted down the idea of joining. Some have formed ancillary transit systems instead.
The result is a hodgepodge of independently run services that make commuting across county lines using mass transit nearly impossible.
