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I find the heavy/light rail distinction confusing and overly-technical in a manner that is pretentious and uncommonly used. "Rapid transit" is a much more common phrase for the technology used by MARTA in the United States. Rail Rapid Transit, or RRT, specifically describes the kind of metro service pitched by the FTA to systems like DC Metro, BART, and MARTA, so as to entertain the idea that "light rail" rapid transit systems can still be rapid transit, LRT. Describing the types of transit service provided by an agency does not seem to follow any kind of template on Wikipedia. I propose that the "heavy rail" section be renamed "rapid transit." I'll leave this comment on here for a few days before changing it. 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 04:29, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I cleaned up some of the wording in the last paragraph of the funding section. My intent was to make it easier to read, while correcting a few factual inaccuracies (i.e. MARTA has mentioned that it might have to cut one day of service, of which a weekday was mentioned once, and Sunday has been mentioned in all other cases).
Honestly, I'm happy with the "Georgia General Assembly caused" language already there before my edit, but I'm open to discussion about whether or not caused by inaction is a good construction.
I would like to have a section on the ARC funding plug mentioned. 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 11:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to delete the following line from the article: "Opposition to MARTA from neighboring counties has been primarily due to MARTA's poor service, consistent record of delays, and crimes occurring on MARTA buses and rail platforms."
Here's why: 1. It has a "citation needed" tag, and no citation has been provided. 2. There's valid debate that perhaps should not be waded into here that MARTA is, in fact, opposed by neighboring counties for the reasons of racism and anti-urban fear, not primarily for the reasons provided in this sentence. 3. "Poor service" and "consistent record of delays" are refuted by later parts of the article, specifically MARTA rail's 90+% on-time performance statistics. Also, without a citation, and being qualitative measures, I think they reveal editorializing POV. 4. While crime perhaps factors in to fears about MARTA service, "occurring and rail platforms" is poorly-worded without a citation. I know of a few high-profile crime-related incidents involved at MARTA, but many have not occurred inside the physical agency itself. This was a point of debate with the woman who was abducted from a MARTA parking lot and then assaulted off-premises, for instance. Also, many specifically fear MARTA because they fear people will (I'm not entertaining this notion, by the way, just describing it) take the train, get off, steal something, carry it back to the train, get back on, and ride off. Or they think it will bring a "bad element" into the area, or whatever. My point being, if you want to talk about fears of crime being a reason the suburbs don't pick up MARTA, perhaps it should be described more accurately and cited.
I think that's grounds for removal without waiting for a response, but there's always a revert if you disagree. Just post something here if you revert, please. 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 15:03, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I was asked to make a few more comments for the TrainsWikiProject assessments so here goes (using bullets so action items can be more easily addressed)...
Slambo (Speak) 12:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I've done another round of edits on the article. Per the TWP assesment I reorganized the article, wrote a longer lead section (please feel free to modify), and did some major cleaning on the references (dead links were replaced with full AJC citations; if people are nitpicky about a certain citation formatting let me know). I also added a safety section (please give your comments on whether this is good or simply cluttter). I'd really like to spin the history article off into a seperate sub-article, focusing on the the politics of the formation of MARTA (others who know more about the construction aspects can add as well). I am also planning to trim down the Nat Ford financial scandal now that the Kokayi controversy has died down (if there are still objections on this issue please speak up). Hopefully by the end of the month we can resubmit this for another review and see if we are at good article (GA) status. I haven't seen too many of the regulars editing lately, but I really appreciate this being a group project. My main interest is the politics of MARTA, but there is a great deal beyond that and I would like to avoid the article having that kind of slant. Biomedeng 02:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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Should we create a new article for performance data? I think it is important to have more than one year's worth of data in order to show trends in MARTA's operation. However I am fine with just the latest year's data being shown in the main article if the rest of the data is easily available through a sub-page. AubieTurtle 04:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
The article states "As a result the MARTA system only operates within the boundaries of the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, and DeKalb County, with additional limited bus service to Cobb County." Technically this is incorrect as the airport rail station is in Clayton County. The inclusion of the City of Atlanta while excluding other cities such as Doraville, College Park, East Point, Decatur, Dunwoody, and several others gives the wrong impression. Either we should list all of the cities or just the counties. The way it is now could lead readers to believe that Atlanta is the only city served by MARTA. If the City of Atlanta extended into a county other than Fulton or DeKalb while MARTA provided service in that area, then it would make sense to explicitly list the City of Atlanta. Since bus service goes to just about every incorporated area of Fulton and DeKalb, the list of cities would be long so it might be better to just remove "City of Atlanta". AubieTurtle 04:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Crossposted from User talk:Biomedeng so that everyone else can comment: Hello there. I've changed Lindbergh Center (MARTA station) to use the new standardized templates developed by Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains. Before I roll these out to the rest of the network I was wondering what you thought of the new look and had any concerns/objections/polemics. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I wraped up the remaining East-West station infobox conversions this morning. Thanks to Earlopogous for helping and to Mackensen for getting us started. A couple of concerns I had were:
If anyone else has any comments or concerns about the new infoboxes please comment. Biomedeng 14:56, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a court of law. It does not matter that the chairman received oral sex from a man he met on Craigslist. If he had received oral sex from a woman he met at Pizza Hut, it would have still been the same situation. What is important is the illegal act and the effect it has had on his position at MARTA. Otherwise we should include all kinds of details such as the color pants he was wearing, which bathroom stall they were in, and if he is circumcised. None of that matters, only that he committed this particular crime and that it caused him to resign. The rest is fluff and serves only to inflate an article that is already too heavy on current events and lacks the ability to put events in the correct perspective of an encyclopedia article that covers several decades of history. Six months from now all of these details will seem out of place. 76.17.65.206 22:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I stumbled across WP:TRAIL and thought this template might give a better result than what we currently ahve on List of MARTA stations. Take a look at User:Biomedeng/sandbox for an idea on what it would look like for our system. Unfortunately the template makes everything in red. I would appreciate input if this effort is worthwhile. Biomedeng 03:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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I have concluded that, in my opinion, the article has passed all categories and I therefore award it GA status. Congratulations to the lead editors, and keep up the excellent work!
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Currently the safety section only covers mechanical problems such as derailments. I think the next big topic for us to tackle should be crime, especially since the public perception is very misaligned with the actual crime figures. The police section of MARTA's website has some data that could serve as a start. It might also be helpful to gather statistics both from other transit systems and metro Atlanta communities in order to give MARTA's crime statistics some context. I'm not sure what will be the best way to present this data, perhaps table form? AubieTurtle 00:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
MARTA has a new Rail Map on their website. It no longer has the "Green Line" and just lumps Proctor Creek in with East-West. Amazingracer 16:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
6 lines? What? I do not understand how this number is arrived at. I've heard 2. I've heard 4. I don't think the Proctor Creek turn-back and the North-South turn-back count as different lines. That's nonsense. I'm changing it to 4, unless someone can cite an article stating, "MARTA has 6 lines." (And then, I'll just find a better one saying it has 4 anyway.) 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 15:10, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed the redirect from Marta has been removed. I checked the history there, it was actually removed back in May. Do we need to put the redirect back? Other wise we whould probably take out the note at the top of this article about "Marta" redirecting here. Amazingracer 18:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I am going to work on the article some more this weekend, mainly performing copyediting for clarity. I condensed some of the criticism seciton since I thought it was somewhat repetitive. I eliminated a couple of statemtents that were tagged for citations. I also removed the Bus Garages section since it didn't seem to add much. Here is the rest of my to do list:
Someone recently added some stats regarding ridership in the race criticism section. The stats are very helpful and add a great deal to the article, but unfortunately without a reference cannot remain. I would like to get a picture of an ADA paratransit van for the paratransit section. I'll try to keep a lookout for one on flikr but if anyone has they want to upload to wikipedia that would be great. I came across this little gem tonight: [3]. It is a detailed history of the construction of MARTA. It has some good old pictures of MARTA and I am going to check sometime to find out if it is a US Gov't publication (if so we can use the pictures on the history page). Maybe worthwhile to add some of the subway construction info to the article as well. I'd like to request a peer review soon on the article to see what else needs to be done for Featured article status. I asked the folks on the Trains wikiproject to reassess this article over a year ago and never heard back, so I am not sure who would do the peer review. I hope some of the regular editors can help out with suggestions on additional editing of this article. Biomedeng ( talk) 02:57, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
What do others think about this new image going at the top of the article:
I was thinking of replacing the nort avenue train image with this one since it is a nice picture of downtown Atlanta. Thoughts?
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I've noticed some vandalism done to this page. I have corrected it. 128.192.56.141 ( talk) 21:57, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Steve
In accordance with what I stated above, I have now shifted the redirect for "Marta" back to the disambig. David ekstrand ( talk) 15:38, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
OK, I'm going to move "Marta (disambiguation)" to "Marta". I really can't see any reason why this should be controversial. Hammer Raccoon ( talk) 17:59, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
This page could really use a lot of help.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority at CPTDB Wiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.31.24 ( talk) 00:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
There is now a full system map available at http://www.itsmarta.com/maps/viewer.asp. It's embedded in a Flash player, so you can't grab a PDF, but it does exist so I'm removing the comment that no system map is available. Patrick Sewell ( talk) 18:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
I read the discussion page for SEPTA, which is named SEPTA, not the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, and realized that this page should be moved to MARTA. Read the Wikipedia guidelines on naming here: WP:NAME. The page should be moved because the agency is always referred to by its abbreviation/acronym "MARTA," just like NASA, NATO, etc. I will not move the page now, but if there is disagreement, then there should be discussion with the editors of the SEPTA article. These two pages should be consistent because they are very similar. Earlopogous 22:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earlopogous ( talk • contribs)
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The GeorgiaCarry.org lawsuit does not seem notable enough to be included in this article. Why only list this lawsuit of all of the lawsuits filed against Marta over the years. 68.217.81.85 ( talk) 16:33, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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I don't know why this pseudo-acronym hasn't been included in the article, since (whether anyone likes it or not) it's apparently been quite well-known in the region for at least 30 years... AnonMoos ( talk) 01:31, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Expansion plans - Previous expansion plans - "The final three MARTA rail stations to be built, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and North Springs - all north of the Interstate 285 Perimeter, were opened in 2000" - Sandy Springs and North Springs opened in 2000; Dunwoody opened much earlier along with Medical Center & Buckhead. 96.88.198.77 ( talk) 00:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. It looks like editors don't agree whether this is actually the primary topic of MARTA, or whether MARTA should instead go to a dab page. Without consensus the page cannot be moved. ( non-admin closure) ( t · c) buidhe 01:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority → MARTA – "MARTA" is the common name for the organization, per its own website. MARTA already redirects to the longer title, and is the primary topic per this RFD. BilCat ( talk) 02:15, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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Can you tell me why the term "its" is used in the website name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey ( talk • contribs) 03:34, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Can you tell me the bus fleet development with retirement reasons and dates? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
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I find the heavy/light rail distinction confusing and overly-technical in a manner that is pretentious and uncommonly used. "Rapid transit" is a much more common phrase for the technology used by MARTA in the United States. Rail Rapid Transit, or RRT, specifically describes the kind of metro service pitched by the FTA to systems like DC Metro, BART, and MARTA, so as to entertain the idea that "light rail" rapid transit systems can still be rapid transit, LRT. Describing the types of transit service provided by an agency does not seem to follow any kind of template on Wikipedia. I propose that the "heavy rail" section be renamed "rapid transit." I'll leave this comment on here for a few days before changing it. 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 04:29, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I cleaned up some of the wording in the last paragraph of the funding section. My intent was to make it easier to read, while correcting a few factual inaccuracies (i.e. MARTA has mentioned that it might have to cut one day of service, of which a weekday was mentioned once, and Sunday has been mentioned in all other cases).
Honestly, I'm happy with the "Georgia General Assembly caused" language already there before my edit, but I'm open to discussion about whether or not caused by inaction is a good construction.
I would like to have a section on the ARC funding plug mentioned. 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 11:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to delete the following line from the article: "Opposition to MARTA from neighboring counties has been primarily due to MARTA's poor service, consistent record of delays, and crimes occurring on MARTA buses and rail platforms."
Here's why: 1. It has a "citation needed" tag, and no citation has been provided. 2. There's valid debate that perhaps should not be waded into here that MARTA is, in fact, opposed by neighboring counties for the reasons of racism and anti-urban fear, not primarily for the reasons provided in this sentence. 3. "Poor service" and "consistent record of delays" are refuted by later parts of the article, specifically MARTA rail's 90+% on-time performance statistics. Also, without a citation, and being qualitative measures, I think they reveal editorializing POV. 4. While crime perhaps factors in to fears about MARTA service, "occurring and rail platforms" is poorly-worded without a citation. I know of a few high-profile crime-related incidents involved at MARTA, but many have not occurred inside the physical agency itself. This was a point of debate with the woman who was abducted from a MARTA parking lot and then assaulted off-premises, for instance. Also, many specifically fear MARTA because they fear people will (I'm not entertaining this notion, by the way, just describing it) take the train, get off, steal something, carry it back to the train, get back on, and ride off. Or they think it will bring a "bad element" into the area, or whatever. My point being, if you want to talk about fears of crime being a reason the suburbs don't pick up MARTA, perhaps it should be described more accurately and cited.
I think that's grounds for removal without waiting for a response, but there's always a revert if you disagree. Just post something here if you revert, please. 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 15:03, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I was asked to make a few more comments for the TrainsWikiProject assessments so here goes (using bullets so action items can be more easily addressed)...
Slambo (Speak) 12:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I've done another round of edits on the article. Per the TWP assesment I reorganized the article, wrote a longer lead section (please feel free to modify), and did some major cleaning on the references (dead links were replaced with full AJC citations; if people are nitpicky about a certain citation formatting let me know). I also added a safety section (please give your comments on whether this is good or simply cluttter). I'd really like to spin the history article off into a seperate sub-article, focusing on the the politics of the formation of MARTA (others who know more about the construction aspects can add as well). I am also planning to trim down the Nat Ford financial scandal now that the Kokayi controversy has died down (if there are still objections on this issue please speak up). Hopefully by the end of the month we can resubmit this for another review and see if we are at good article (GA) status. I haven't seen too many of the regulars editing lately, but I really appreciate this being a group project. My main interest is the politics of MARTA, but there is a great deal beyond that and I would like to avoid the article having that kind of slant. Biomedeng 02:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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Should we create a new article for performance data? I think it is important to have more than one year's worth of data in order to show trends in MARTA's operation. However I am fine with just the latest year's data being shown in the main article if the rest of the data is easily available through a sub-page. AubieTurtle 04:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
The article states "As a result the MARTA system only operates within the boundaries of the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, and DeKalb County, with additional limited bus service to Cobb County." Technically this is incorrect as the airport rail station is in Clayton County. The inclusion of the City of Atlanta while excluding other cities such as Doraville, College Park, East Point, Decatur, Dunwoody, and several others gives the wrong impression. Either we should list all of the cities or just the counties. The way it is now could lead readers to believe that Atlanta is the only city served by MARTA. If the City of Atlanta extended into a county other than Fulton or DeKalb while MARTA provided service in that area, then it would make sense to explicitly list the City of Atlanta. Since bus service goes to just about every incorporated area of Fulton and DeKalb, the list of cities would be long so it might be better to just remove "City of Atlanta". AubieTurtle 04:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Crossposted from User talk:Biomedeng so that everyone else can comment: Hello there. I've changed Lindbergh Center (MARTA station) to use the new standardized templates developed by Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains. Before I roll these out to the rest of the network I was wondering what you thought of the new look and had any concerns/objections/polemics. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I wraped up the remaining East-West station infobox conversions this morning. Thanks to Earlopogous for helping and to Mackensen for getting us started. A couple of concerns I had were:
If anyone else has any comments or concerns about the new infoboxes please comment. Biomedeng 14:56, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a court of law. It does not matter that the chairman received oral sex from a man he met on Craigslist. If he had received oral sex from a woman he met at Pizza Hut, it would have still been the same situation. What is important is the illegal act and the effect it has had on his position at MARTA. Otherwise we should include all kinds of details such as the color pants he was wearing, which bathroom stall they were in, and if he is circumcised. None of that matters, only that he committed this particular crime and that it caused him to resign. The rest is fluff and serves only to inflate an article that is already too heavy on current events and lacks the ability to put events in the correct perspective of an encyclopedia article that covers several decades of history. Six months from now all of these details will seem out of place. 76.17.65.206 22:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I stumbled across WP:TRAIL and thought this template might give a better result than what we currently ahve on List of MARTA stations. Take a look at User:Biomedeng/sandbox for an idea on what it would look like for our system. Unfortunately the template makes everything in red. I would appreciate input if this effort is worthwhile. Biomedeng 03:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Good morning ( GMT time); I have reviewed this article on 03:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC) in accordance with the Good Article (GA) criteria. There are seven main criteria that the article must comply with to pass:
I have concluded that, in my opinion, the article has passed all categories and I therefore award it GA status. Congratulations to the lead editors, and keep up the excellent work!
Kindest regards,
anthony[
cfc 03:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Currently the safety section only covers mechanical problems such as derailments. I think the next big topic for us to tackle should be crime, especially since the public perception is very misaligned with the actual crime figures. The police section of MARTA's website has some data that could serve as a start. It might also be helpful to gather statistics both from other transit systems and metro Atlanta communities in order to give MARTA's crime statistics some context. I'm not sure what will be the best way to present this data, perhaps table form? AubieTurtle 00:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
MARTA has a new Rail Map on their website. It no longer has the "Green Line" and just lumps Proctor Creek in with East-West. Amazingracer 16:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
6 lines? What? I do not understand how this number is arrived at. I've heard 2. I've heard 4. I don't think the Proctor Creek turn-back and the North-South turn-back count as different lines. That's nonsense. I'm changing it to 4, unless someone can cite an article stating, "MARTA has 6 lines." (And then, I'll just find a better one saying it has 4 anyway.) 69.94.192.147 ( talk) 15:10, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed the redirect from Marta has been removed. I checked the history there, it was actually removed back in May. Do we need to put the redirect back? Other wise we whould probably take out the note at the top of this article about "Marta" redirecting here. Amazingracer 18:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I am going to work on the article some more this weekend, mainly performing copyediting for clarity. I condensed some of the criticism seciton since I thought it was somewhat repetitive. I eliminated a couple of statemtents that were tagged for citations. I also removed the Bus Garages section since it didn't seem to add much. Here is the rest of my to do list:
Someone recently added some stats regarding ridership in the race criticism section. The stats are very helpful and add a great deal to the article, but unfortunately without a reference cannot remain. I would like to get a picture of an ADA paratransit van for the paratransit section. I'll try to keep a lookout for one on flikr but if anyone has they want to upload to wikipedia that would be great. I came across this little gem tonight: [3]. It is a detailed history of the construction of MARTA. It has some good old pictures of MARTA and I am going to check sometime to find out if it is a US Gov't publication (if so we can use the pictures on the history page). Maybe worthwhile to add some of the subway construction info to the article as well. I'd like to request a peer review soon on the article to see what else needs to be done for Featured article status. I asked the folks on the Trains wikiproject to reassess this article over a year ago and never heard back, so I am not sure who would do the peer review. I hope some of the regular editors can help out with suggestions on additional editing of this article. Biomedeng ( talk) 02:57, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
What do others think about this new image going at the top of the article:
I was thinking of replacing the nort avenue train image with this one since it is a nice picture of downtown Atlanta. Thoughts?
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I've noticed some vandalism done to this page. I have corrected it. 128.192.56.141 ( talk) 21:57, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Steve
In accordance with what I stated above, I have now shifted the redirect for "Marta" back to the disambig. David ekstrand ( talk) 15:38, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
OK, I'm going to move "Marta (disambiguation)" to "Marta". I really can't see any reason why this should be controversial. Hammer Raccoon ( talk) 17:59, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
This page could really use a lot of help.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority at CPTDB Wiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.31.24 ( talk) 00:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
There is now a full system map available at http://www.itsmarta.com/maps/viewer.asp. It's embedded in a Flash player, so you can't grab a PDF, but it does exist so I'm removing the comment that no system map is available. Patrick Sewell ( talk) 18:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
I read the discussion page for SEPTA, which is named SEPTA, not the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, and realized that this page should be moved to MARTA. Read the Wikipedia guidelines on naming here: WP:NAME. The page should be moved because the agency is always referred to by its abbreviation/acronym "MARTA," just like NASA, NATO, etc. I will not move the page now, but if there is disagreement, then there should be discussion with the editors of the SEPTA article. These two pages should be consistent because they are very similar. Earlopogous 22:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earlopogous ( talk • contribs)
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The GeorgiaCarry.org lawsuit does not seem notable enough to be included in this article. Why only list this lawsuit of all of the lawsuits filed against Marta over the years. 68.217.81.85 ( talk) 16:33, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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I don't know why this pseudo-acronym hasn't been included in the article, since (whether anyone likes it or not) it's apparently been quite well-known in the region for at least 30 years... AnonMoos ( talk) 01:31, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Expansion plans - Previous expansion plans - "The final three MARTA rail stations to be built, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and North Springs - all north of the Interstate 285 Perimeter, were opened in 2000" - Sandy Springs and North Springs opened in 2000; Dunwoody opened much earlier along with Medical Center & Buckhead. 96.88.198.77 ( talk) 00:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. It looks like editors don't agree whether this is actually the primary topic of MARTA, or whether MARTA should instead go to a dab page. Without consensus the page cannot be moved. ( non-admin closure) ( t · c) buidhe 01:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority → MARTA – "MARTA" is the common name for the organization, per its own website. MARTA already redirects to the longer title, and is the primary topic per this RFD. BilCat ( talk) 02:15, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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Can you tell me why the term "its" is used in the website name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey ( talk • contribs) 03:34, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Can you tell me the bus fleet development with retirement reasons and dates? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 26 November 2021 (UTC)