U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Thursday that he has instructed the Federal Transit Administration to launch an investigation into MARTA, which will look into the transit agency’s security spending, safety protocols and risks to riders and workers.
The decision comes shortly after the May 30 attack on a 66-year-old woman aboard a MARTA train last weekend, and the May 24 stabbing of a 40-year-old man several times during an altercation at a MARTA station.
The U.S. Department of Transportation says that MARTA’s rate of personal security events (assaults, robberies, rapes, etc.) for MARTA employees and riders is nearly twice the national average, a statistic that the agency calls “particularly concerning.”
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