Atlanta Transit Agency Proposes Timeline For Big Projects

The plan by MARTA calls for launching two bus rapid transit lines and making other bus improvements by 2025, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Construction would also start in the coming years on a streetcar extension. However, light rail along the Atlanta BeltLine would take longer.

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Atlanta’s public transit agency has laid out a preliminary timeline for new construction projects that puts off some highly anticipated items to 2035 and later, a newspaper reported.

The plan by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority calls for launching two bus rapid transit lines and making other bus improvements by 2025, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Construction would also start in the coming years on a streetcar extension.

But light rail along the Atlanta BeltLine would take longer.