![]() ![]() MARTA expects 2,350 riders will use the service on a daily basis once it opens.īut the short-term forecast shows that costs for virtually every aspect of the project-labor, right-of-way acquisition, utility relocation, even the price of red paint to demarcate bus-only lanes from regular ones-have ballooned in the face of inflation, according to MARTA construction officials. About 85 percent of the corridor will have dedicated bus-only lanes, theoretically meaning buses won’t be bogged down in traffic and travel times will be quicker. Once the line is built, buses are expected to arrive with frequencies between 10 minutes (daytime peak hours) and 20 minutes (late nights and weekend mornings). The 14-stop Summerhill BRT route revealed by MARTA in August. Plans had called for Atlanta’s first BRT route to launch construction in August and debut for passengers in August 2024, as funded by the $2.7-billion MORE MARTA half-penny sales tax for transit approved by voters in 2016. MARTA’s first new transit line since the Sandy Springs MARTA station opened in the year 2000-the Summerhill bus rapid transit route, a connection from downtown to the BeltLine’s Southside Trail-was supposed to begin construction this month.īut as the AJC reports, that work won't start until the opposite side of this winter, as an updated analysis shows the Summerhill BRT line will cost nearly 49 percent more than previously expected, bumping estimated costs from $61.5 million up to more than $91 million. ![]() Skyrocketing building and labor costs, in conjunction with MARTA’s inexperience in creating new transit lines over the past two decades, is proving a devastating combo for customers who’d hoped to catch new rapid-bus services from places like Summerhill and Peoplestown within the next two years. ![]()
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