MARTA Shortens Morning Rush Hour Trains on East/West Line
Decatur Metro | December 2, 2013A couple of weeks back, Bryan sent in a note saying that during the November he had noticed that morning rush hour trains out of East Lake Station were “so crammed with passengers…that several people had great difficulty holding on, boarding and unboarding.”
He wrote an email to MARTA inquiring as to what was up and was told that data analysis has shown a decline in ridership and that the East/West line no longer required 8-car trains during the morning commute. As such they had moved to sending out 4, 6-car trains each hour. You can read the full letter HERE.
We contacted our friends at Decaturish about this development and they were good enough to follow up with MARTA to see if they had comment about this car reduction. MARTA told Decaturish that this new plan would be in place for the foreseeable future, but that they would “continue to monitor ridership and make adjustments, as needed”.