MARTA service impacted for hours by fatal train incident at Oakland City station
The Oakland City MARTA station was shut down for hours Monday afternoon when a person was hit by a train and killed, officials said.
The person, who investigators believe jumped onto the tracks, was hit by a northbound train as it approached the station just south of downtown Atlanta, a MARTA spokeswoman said. Track power between the Lakewood and West End stations, the stops directly before and after the Oakland City station, was shut off so emergency crews could investigate the fatal collision.
The incident took place about 2:20 p.m., Channel 2 Action News reported. By about 6:30 p.m., operations returned to normal with few delays for travel.
About two hours into the investigation, MARTA’s rail operations team restored power to one set of tracks at the Oakland City station so trains could be single-tracked through, the spokeswoman said. MARTA also provided bus transportation between East Point and West End as a stopgap for the disrupted train service and gave credit on Uber and Lyft for affected customers, according to the spokeswoman.
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