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    MARTA launches Project Snapshot Tool to track progress of capital projects

    March 27, 2025
    The online tool provides a brief project description, its current phase, anticipated completion date and a chart showing the amount of funds spent so far compared to the lifetime project budget.
    Related To: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
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    MARTA Streetcar.
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    The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) has released a new online interactive tool to track the progress of capital projects to maintain, improve and expand the system. 

    The online tool, the Project Snapshot Tool, provides basic timelines, budgets and spending progress on all the projects contained in MARTA’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP). MARTA notes the CIP is a 10-year plan that is updated and approved annually by MARTA’s Board of Directors. 

    The tool allows the projects to be searchable by each of MARTA’s four jurisdictions: the city of Atlanta and Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton Counties, as well as by the following categories: 

    • Expansion: Includes planning, design and construction of projects to expand service, such as MARTA Rapid lines and the Bankhead platform extension. 
    • State of good repair projects: Includes projects or programs to address specific long-term maintenance needs, such as station rehabilitation. 
    • State of good repair recurring: Includes annual maintenance expenses, such as elevator and escalator repair, railcar and bus maintenance and vehicle replacement. 
    • Policy, innovation, administration: Includes a variety of studies, administrative costs, software and other items needed to administer the capital program. 

    MARTA says the Project Snapshot Tool provides a brief project description, its current phase, anticipated completion date and a chart showing the amount of funds spent so far compared to the lifetime project budget. 

    “This tool offers a new way for our customers and other stakeholders to follow the progress on our wide-reaching capital program,” said MARTA Chief Capital Officer Carrie Rocha. “We hope it helps give insight into the enormous scale of work it takes to keep our system running for another half-century and beyond.”