Douglas Nagy

9 injured in chaos at MARTA station after leaving Beyoncé concert People were moving down an escalator just past midnight early Tuesday morning when someone screamed, officials said.

marta has now failed in five major events in the past eight months.

❌ Pride Parade
❌ St. Patrick's Parade
❌ Shakira
❌ Peachtree Road Race
❌ Beyonce

Atlanta is not ready for the World Cup: unnavigable for tourists, unusable for crowds and suburbanites, unsafe for everyday riders.

I don’t know how Marta expects to host the world cup. this peachtree experience has been dismal so far. waiting 20 min for a train we can fit on

Lots of Louis Vuitton on this train, but only one MARTA shirt. Bonjour, y’all. 💙🧡💛
#ParisMetro #Atlanta

marta Dekalb County board member Shayna Pollock is now questioning the merits of said "retreat" and how this discussion of budget concerns behind closed doors and without cameras (except mine) would affect transparency moving forward

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

“MARTA was a great galvanizer of dreams… a major force of prosperity… And we need continued boldness.”
- Bill Ide, MARTA Launch Team 1970s

Just got my hands on a 1975 magazine declaring: “Atlanta Transit: It WILL be built” “MARTA gets moving” 🧡💙💛

My favorite Spanish word is PUEBLEAR—wandering through small towns and soaking in their charm. As a former Main Street manager, I’m grateful for a lovely Sunday of puebleando in Alabama! #UnionSprings #Samson #Tuskegee

TORPY: Why does MARTA go where folks aren’t going? Less than 30 million people rode MARTA’s rail last year. By comparison, almost 62 million did in 2019, the year before the pandemic.

How a #transit system dies:
“…he had to step over human waste at the Dunwoody station…he was accompanying his mother-in-law from the airport when a nut pulled a gun on him and others.”

That’s a former #Atlanta Dep. Transportation Commissioner.

#MARTA needs a fix.

www.ajc.com/opinion/colu...

More Marta has to pay for “more” not just for regular “Marta” services

The new MARTA report is an attempt to rewrite history and rewind mistakes that have been made.

I agree with @andreforatlanta.com and stand by the original City audit

I’ve designed my life to avoid Atlanta traffic.
Come ride with me.

Local journalism is essential for accountability. Grateful for AJC and Sara Gregory coverage of MARTA’s challenges—reading it now while commuting on MARTA.

Higher ridership = more revenue 💰 The newly revised budget proposal shows an increase of $20M for FY26 & a projected increase of $29M in FY27 from our Dec proposal. #wmata #MetroBoardMeeting

Atlanta is doable if your office is near a station and you're intentional about where you live. And don't have dependents. And can deal with the *reactions* you'll get if you tell people you voluntarily take MARTA.

Report: Watchman doing other work before MARTA train hit worker MARTA employee hit by train had leg amputated below the knee.

Remember the MARTA employee hit by a train in October? The watchman tasked with alerting maintenance workers to oncoming trains was focused on other work, according to the NTSB's preliminary report. The injured employee needed a below-the-knee amputation: www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

OFF THE RAILS: 10+ hrs since a derailment, 48 hrs since a station fire. MARTA CEO has said nothing to reassure riders about our safety.

Appreciate the work. Which dot is Atlanta?