Brookhaven city officials were caught off guard by a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) announcement that its trains would temporarily skip Brookhaven Station so construction crews could replace pavers, according to a report.
MARTA announced its trains will skip the station from Oct. 7 to Nov. 15 as crews replace its 40-year-old pavers.
However, according to the AJC report, city officials didn’t know about the closure until the agency publicly announced it.
“MARTA doesn’t operate independently in a vacuum,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted Brookhaven City Council member Jennifer Owens as saying. “They are very much embedded in the communities in which they’ve got stations and bus lines, and we’ve got folks that rely heavily on them. Having that information and being able to participate in the conversation is so critical.”
