Historic Marco Polo Pullman Car Arrives at Southeastern Railway Museum

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) General Manager and CEO Jeffrey Parker today said Atlanta needs a “moonshot for transit” to ensure metro Atlanta’s growth as a world-class region.

ATLANTA — MARTA, metro Atlanta’s mass transit system, is reviewing the so-called station gaps, the distance between subway stops, according to a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Officials hope adding more stations to the 48-mile line will attract more riders. Extending the rail line would cost roughly $100 million per mile, while building the “infill stations” might be a cheaper approach. “MARTA’s approach has always been to extend the line, and once they’ve built that, development would come,” Lara Hodgson, a member of metro Atlanta’s regional Transit Planning Board, told the newspaper. “But what if you did the opposite?” she

Nationwide, railroads stepped up security following the announcement of an increase to the country’s terror threat level.