Oct 4, 2018 ... The MARTA board of directors voted Thursday to approve $2.7 billion in ... Nearly  50,000 cars pass through the area each day, according to estimates from the  Clifton ... the VA, while also making it easier for Emory students and faculty to  travel to Atlanta ... Emory Healthcare subsidizes it over 80 percent.
Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip ... PolitiFact published nearly  two dozen stories checking statements about the 10-year, 1 percent sales tax, ...
Apr 14, 2014 ... Background information for readers: MARTA was formed by an act of ...  Accompanied by either one or two members of the MARTA staff, I had met with  virtually all of our ... ¾ cent sales tax and used the additional ¼ cent to subsidize  the fare. ... He asked how we would be if the tax went to 1 percent, and we ...
Jul 27, 2012 ... Leave it to the Truth-O-Meter to inspect every bump and crack in the ... Brett  Bittner: Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip.
being expanded, has cost US taxpayers and residents of the Atlanta ... only  federal capital subsidies under the new rail-starts programme and for the  Washington ... fuel, on MARTA' s FY80 ridership are clearly evident in both the  total ... transit ridership, as measured by linked trips, was only 2.5 per cent above  its FY79 level,.
Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip