By Ariel Hart
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta News
October 4, 2010
MARTA will receive $19.7 million in federal grants, to help upgrade parts of its bus system that are deteriorating, according to the Federal Transit Administration.
As part of $776 million nationwide in federal grants announced Monday to help bring bus systems back into a state of good repair, MARTA was awarded $18.3 million to replace its Brady Mobility Facility. That's where MARTA operates and maintains its paratransit fleet, buses to carry passengers with disabilities.
The Brady paratransit facility was built in 1974 and hasn't had a significant renovation since then, according to the FTA. MARTA's Mobility service carried passengers on 508,000 trips over the last fiscal year, according to MARTA spokesman Lyle Harris, and it expects a 13 percent increase in demand for paratransit this year.
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