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Atlanta Forward: Transportation

MARTA customers walk down to train platform at the College Park sation on Aug. 9, 2014.

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MARTA customers walk down to train platform at the College Park sation on Aug. 9, 2014.
By Tom Sabulis
May 25, 2015

My recent column about a panhandling experience on a train at the airport station prompted MARTA’s police chief to write about the success of the transit agency’s Ride With Respect program. A Gwinnett businessman lobbies for an expansion of MARTA to that county. And an Atlanta attorney calls for improvements in truck fleets that could prevent deadly accidents — such as the recent I-16 tragedies — allegedly caused by tractor-trailer drivers who crashed into traffic standstills.

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