Tag: Atlanta transportation
Frustrated by MARTA’s app, this Georgia Tech grad made his own
“The official MARTA app was pretty rough,” Chad Etzel says of the On the Go app. A former Apple engineer, Etzel found all the data he needed online and began tinkering with an app that would provide more accurate, user-friendly information about MARTA’s buses and trains. A few days later, he had his prototype, which he named Terminus.
Ryan Gravel and Tim Keane are sketching a smarter city plan for Atlanta
“Atlanta has an opportunity over the next 25 years to completely shift [its] way of developing,” says Tim Keane. “But we will not be successful if we don’t have a design.”
Keith Parker puts us back on track
MARTA CEO Keith Parker's biggest project yet is the construction of three new rail lines expected to cost upwards of $8 billion. In MARTA’s history, the ambition of Parker’s expansion plan is rivaled only by the ambition behind the agency’s creation five decades ago.
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