MARTA officials aren’t ready to announce where other new rail stations will be located after Mayor Andre Dickens revealed one of them earlier this week in his State of the City address.
Dickens said Monday that the Murphy Crossing mixed-use project in south Atlanta would be getting a new MARTA station and teased that three others were also in the pipeline.
During today’s Atlanta City Council Transportation Committee meeting, MARTA officials were peppered with questions about the transit agency’s future plans, according to a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
MARTA CEO Collie Greenwood told the committee that five potential locations for the new stations were listed in the More MARTA transit program approved by voters in 2016. But he wouldn’t confirm which three might be on the table.
The other locations in the More MARTA plan are Armour Yards in Buckhead between Arts Center and Lindbergh; Boone in northwest Atlanta between Ashby and Bankhead; Hulsey/Krog in northeast Atlanta between King Memorial and Inman Park/Reynoldstown; and Mechanicsville located off McDaniel Street between West End and Oakland City.
According to the AJC, Greenwood emphasized that plans for infill MARTA stations would not replace the plan to extend the Downtown streetcar to the Atlanta BeltLine Eastside Trail.
Greenwood said work was progressing on both the Murphy Crossing station and streetcar extension, noting that “we’ve got a lot of work underway with streetcar east.”
