MARTA Officials: Cut One Weekday Of Service

ATLANTA — For the half a million people who depend on MARTA, a devastating cut could be on the way. The state legislature didn’t vote to allow MARTA to use more of its own money.

Now, MARTA officials say it will have to cut a day of service during the week — and lay off hundreds of workers.

Mass transit as we know it is on the brink of some major changes in Metro Atlanta. This as a funding crisis could adversely affect the future of MARTA.

The options now are few: possibly end bus and train service one day a week in addition to scaling back schedules on weekends.

“I can understand they have some restraints as far as they’re budgets and so forth but there are a lot of folks that don’t have cars and rely on the MARTA,” said commuter Alex Morrison.

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