The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) released a new online interactive tool to track the progress of its sweeping program of capital projects to maintain, improve, and expand the system. 

The Project Snapshot Tool provides basic timelines, budgets, and spending progress on all the projects contained in MARTA’s Capital Improvement Program. 

The CIP is a 10-year plan that is updated and approved annually by MARTA’s board. 

MARTA’s New Online Tool

The projects are searchable by each of MARTA’s four jurisdictions, City of Atlanta, and Clayton, DeKalb, and Fulton Counties, as well as by the following categories: 

• Expansion: Includes planning, design, and construction of projects to expand service, such as MARTA Rapid lines and the Bankhead platform extension.

• State of Good Repair – Projects: Includes projects or programs to address specific long-term maintenance needs, such as station rehabilitation. 

• State of Good Repair – Recurring: Includes annual maintenance expenses, such as elevator and escalator repair, railcar and bus maintenance, and vehicle replacement. 

• Policy, Innovation, Administration: Includes a variety of studies, administrative costs, software, and other items needed to administer the capital program.

The Project Snapshot Tool provides a brief project description, its current phase, anticipated completion date, and a chart showing the amount of funds spent so far compared to the lifetime project budget. 

“This tool offers a new way for our customers and other stakeholders to follow the progress on our wide-reaching capital program,” said MARTA Chief Capital Officer Carrie Rocha. “We hope it helps give insight into the enormous scale of work it takes to keep our system running for another half-century and beyond.” 

Click here to explore the Project Snapshot Tool.