Marta: History and Development

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit System has an exciting history involving complicated construction management, social issues, impressive technology, and bureaucratic complications. Even though MARTA has been successful over the years, it still has remained in controversy. The exhibit includes various forms of media, including videos, images, research papers, legislation, and original maps. The exhibit explores exploring social issues and racial divides of proposed track extensions to technical aspects of the trains and track engineering. The exhibit takes on various scopes in order to get a comprehensive view of MARTA. This ranges from a full analysis of the impact on MARTA of the Atlanta economy to specific technical features of the train system. It also explores the entire lifetime of the MARTA from its legislative inception to its future plans.