Here's the number everyone is waiting for: marta confirms that as of FY25, there are 22,340 parking spots across its 38 Atlanta-area stations, or an average of nearly 600 per station!
marta is proposing these reduction in positions:
-63% in centralized program management,
-20% in capital program delivery,
-14% in planning,
-16% in centralized program management, and
-24% in research & analysis!
Mind you, nine years into more marta, zero voter-approved projects have been opened!
These are projections more consistent with an agency in managed decline, who plans to offload responsibilities to consultants, than with an agency planning a billion-dollar expansion
Having reviewed all the materials and slides supplied to marta board members and senior executives, there was exactly zero mention of marta's plummeting ridership, and one mention of frequencies (a planned 13% increase in revenue miles)
oh my god I am sick to death of the pods. why is the city so married to this idea? unproven vaporware that’s gonna cost an arm and a leg with zero results
We still have three more hours of meetings to go, but my general impression is that most marta senior management and board members are looking at numbers that project a transit death spiral and are either patting themselves on the back, or oblivious as to what transit actually does.
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-63% in centralized program management,
-20% in capital program delivery,
-14% in planning,
-16% in centralized program management, and
-24% in research & analysis!
Mind you, nine years into more marta, zero voter-approved projects have been opened!
However, there is one visual of autonomous pods.