Add It Up: MARTA gets no stimulus-money love
July 19, 2009 at 11:12 am by Mara Shalhoup in Add it upAmount of federal stimulus dollars allocated for Georgia transportation improvements: $1.1 billion
Of that $1.1 billion, amount Georgia will spend on road construction and maintenance: $932 million
Amount of federal stimulus dollars earmarked for MARTA: $63 million
Amount the state of Georgia contributes to the operating costs of MARTA: $0
Number of other states that don’t allocate funding for their major public transit systems: 0
Atlanta’s rank among the country’s most traffic-congested metropolitan areas: 3
Number of cities whose residents spend more time commuting than those in Atlanta: 0
Percent likelihood that an Atlanta driver will express road rage if cut off: 14.4
Rank of Atlanta when it comes to seven cities surveyed for rude drivers: 1
Sources: AJC.com, Atlanta Business Chronicle
July 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Well the whole point of providing stimulus money to the states is to help create jobs. How does providing stimulus money to MARTA going to create new jobs? Never mind that the agency has been mismanaged for decades.