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September 4, 2012 ATLANTA A Marta employee was available to assist patrons using fare machines at the Hartsfield Jackson International Airport MARTA station on Tuesday September 4, 2012. MARTA problems with the system's payment machines that began this weekend continued on Tuesday. MARTA Breeze vending machines stopped accepting credit cards on one of the busiest tourism weekends in Atlanta. The cash-only transactions put riders in a bind who are accustomed to uploading cash on their Breeze cards with credit and debit cards. A vendor runs MARTA's payment system and is trying to fix the glitch. KENT D. JOHNSON / KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
September 4, 2012 ATLANTA A Marta employee was available to assist patrons using fare machines at the Hartsfield Jackson International Airport MARTA station on Tuesday September 4, 2012. MARTA problems with the system's payment machines that began this weekend continued on Tuesday. MARTA Breeze vending machines stopped accepting credit cards on one of the busiest tourism weekends in Atlanta. The cash-only transactions put riders in a bind who are accustomed to uploading cash on their Breeze cards with credit and debit cards. A vendor runs MARTA's payment system and is trying to fix the glitch. KENT D. JOHNSON / KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
By Tom Sabulis
Aug 19, 2013

Today’s moderator: Tom Sabulis

A 20-year veteran of the AJC, Tom Sabulis has covered news, politics and the arts during a career that has taken him to newspapers across the country. Since 2008, he has coordinated many of the newspaper’s pro/con debates and first-person guest columns.

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Two legislators on the MARTA oversight committee have suggested to the transit agency that it do more research on distance-based fares, and employ such a system to raise revenues. Today, MARTA’s leader explains that it’s a complicated process to switch, and it would be premature to do so right now, as the Atlanta Regional Commission is studying further integration of suburban bus systems with MARTA. In our second column, a transportation analyst writes how distance-based fares could help MARTA.

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Transit fares for the future by Keith T. Parker

MARTA should embrace distance fares by Baruch Feigenbaum

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