MARTA To Meet With Feds About Millions To Expand Transit

MARTA CEO Keith Parker is scheduled to meet with federal transportation officials in Washington, D.C., next week about more than $20 million in potential funding for a nearly seven-mile, $42.3 million bus-rapid-transit line along Northside Drive and Metropolitan Parkway.

MARTA plans show a bus line beginning in the north at I-75, and running south all the way to Atlanta Metropolitan State College with potential stops in a number of highly trafficked areas: Atlantic Station, Georgia Tech, the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Phillips Arena, Atlanta University Center and the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail.

The buses would run in dedicated lanes.