A map showing how new light rail would link with the downtown streetcar. Not every part of Atlanta would benefit from light rail, however, and instead would be better served by bus transit.

But there is a fatal flaw: the light rail infrastructure goes through one of the most congested parts of town, the downtown path of the Atlanta Streetcar. A map showing how new light rail would ...

MARTA's final expansion plan for Atlanta includes 29 miles of light rail, 13 miles of bus rapid transit lines, three arterial rapid transit routes, the renovation of existing rail stations and ...

MARTA is reconsidering plans for light rail on another key Atlanta transit corridor — the latest indication that the agency’s plans for a major rail expansion may not come to pass. The agency ...

Despite a lack of funding, Atlanta may extend its light rail system into suburban DeKalb County ... ARC’s plans for fund distribution, as documented in the map above, would provide for the ...

Last week, Atlanta’s notoriously dysfunctional mass transportation authority, MARTA, released a $2.7-billion expansion plan that will extend its services from the city center via light rail ...

ATLANTA — MARTA once touted light rail as the future of transportation in the metro Atlanta area. Now the transit agency has pulled the plug on yet another light rail project. MARTA says it now ...

ATLANTA - Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and his staff announced Thursday he no longer supports the first phase of the light ...

This summer, Atlanta Beltline advocates pressed MARTA for more funding to build-out light rail along the 22-mile loop of abandoned railway around the city. Some of the most vocal supporters ...