Photo Gallery: Intermodal Passes Through Marietta, Ga.

Voters in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County have voted down a proposal to expand MARTA into their county.

ATLANTA — The city’s mass transit system has posted its first operating profit in nine years, it announced today. For fiscal year 2005-06, MARTA finished in the black by $19 million, The Associated Press reported. Officials has expected an $18 million loss. "It’s a very positive picture going into the future," AP quoted Richard McCrillis, MARTA’s interim general manager, as saying. "MARTA has its financial picture together."

Federal and state officials are studying six possible routes for a high-speed rail line connecting Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina.