The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Board of Directors has adopted a nearly $1.2 billion operating and capital budget for the 2021 fiscal year.
It was about 3:30 p.m. on July 6, 1862, ostensibly a typical Sunday during the early years of the Civil War, when two trains collided near Ringgold, Georgia, on the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
The amendment outlines jurisdictional roles and responsibilities relating to the development of the MARTA system. It also ratifies the extension of the full penny sales tax levy through 2057, which the Georgia General Assembly approved in 2015.
