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RAPID TRANSIT
PROGRESS
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY
“MARTA REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE IT SERVES...”
JANUARY 1967
VOL. 2, NO. 1
STATE BUDGET PROPOSES
$500,000 FOR MARTA IN 1968-69
The state budget for fiscal 1968-1969, now being con-
sidered by the General Assembly, includes a request for
$500,000 for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority. This amount would be the first state funds
granted to MARTA; the grant is possible under the provi-
sions of Constitutional Amendment 14, passed in the
November 1966 General Election.
Governor Lester Maddox, in his budget address to the
General Assembly, January 13, included the request under
a section on “Development Propos-
als.” After outlining his major pro-
grams, the Governor stated, “Other
major proposals included in the budg-
et I am submitting today include (a
proposal to) . . . provide $250,000
in each of the fiscal years of the
biennium to match federal and local
funds for Rapid Transit in Atlanta
\ as soon as the Authority qualifies for
Gov. Lester Maddox the assistance.”
The request was part of the proposed budget drawn by
former Gov. Carl Sanders in conferences with then-Demo-
cratic Gubernatorial Candidate Lester Maddox and Re-
publican Gubernatorial Candidate Howard “Bo” Callaway.
Sanders called a news conference Dec. 21 to announce
the budget request for rapid transit. After announcing the
request for the half-million dollars, Sanders stated, “I
earnestly hope that this is just the first installment of State
support for the rapid transit system here in Atlanta. The
problem of moving people rapidly and effectively is one
that faces all of our urban areas, but it is most acute here
in our Capital City.”
“We cannot stop improving our highways—and I might
say that a fourth of Georgia’s highway money has gone
into the Atlanta area in the past four years—but we cannot
depend upon highways alone to solve our problems.”
“That is why this initial State grant is so important. We
are backing up our legislative support with hard cash, and
now the project can really get under way.”
Henry L. Stuart, General Manager of MARTA, respon-
ded with words of appreciation for the request, and ex-
plained, “The appropriation announced today will allow the
Authority to proceed with the detailed design of portions
of the rapid transit system and with some right-of-way
acquisition.”
“We expect to apply for federal funds of four times this
amount, using the State’s appropriation as the local match-
ing funds. This $500,000 thus will become $2,500,000
with the approval of federal funds on a four to one basis.”
Stuart noted that “The total construction cost of the en-
tire 66-mile system will be about $437 million. The basic
system (North-South and East-West lines) will cost about
$310 million to get into operation. It is our hope that in the
next 20 to 30 years the State will be able to provide the
maximum amount allowed under the law, which is 10 per
cent of the total cost. If this amount is provided, and the
maximum amount of federal funds are forthcoming, the
amount required from the City of Atlanta and the counties
of Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and Gwinnett will not be
excessive.”
Others present at the news conference included Roy A.
Blount, MARTA Vice Chairman; Augustus H. Sterne,
President of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; Alvin
Ferst, Chairman of the Chamber’s Rapid Transit Com-
mittee; Fulton Rep. Jack Etheridge; Curtis Driskell, Director
of Metropolitan Affairs of the Chamber; and King Elliott,
MARTA Public Information Director.
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Gov. Carl Sanders, with MARTA Vice Chairman Roy A.
Blount (left) and General Manager Henry L. Stuart (right).
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA
RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY
808 GLENN BLDG,.*120 MARIETTA ST..N.W.
ATLANTA, GA. 30303°PHONE 524-5711
“DIRECTED BY THE GEORGIA STATE
LEGISLATURE TO DEVELOP A RAPID
TRANSIT SYSTEM FORTHE S-COUNTY
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA AREA.”
Edited by Kina ELuotTr
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS:
Ricuarp H. Ricu, Chairman Roy A. Buount, Vice Chairman
Rosert F. ADAMSON, Treasurer GLENN E. BENNETT, Secretary
CITY OF ATLANTA:
Mitts B. LANE, JR. L. D. MILTON
Ricuarp H. Ricuh RAWSON HAVERTY
CLAYTON COUNTY:
Epcar BLALOCK
DEKALB COUNTY:
Roy A. BLouNT Dr. SANFORD ATWOOD
FULTON COUNTY:
W. A. PULVER MitcHetu C. BIsHoP
GWINNETT COUNTY:
K. A. McMILiton
COBB COUNTY (Observer)
Otis A. BrumMsy, JR.
MARTA STAFF:
Henry L. Stuart, General Manager |
Kine Etwviott, Director of Public Information
H. N. Jounson, Secretary to General Manager
EDUCATOR NOTES URGENT NEED
FOR RAPID TRANSIT
“Hover over Atlanta in a helicopter at five o’clock in the
afternoon, Look at the freeways and city streets jammed
with thousands of cars inching their way home, and you
know Atlanta needs a rapid transit system NOW,” says
MARTA Board member Dr. Sanford Atwood.
“From the air, downtown Atlanta seems like one vast
parking lot, a sea of cars surrounding lines of shiny new
office buildings,” says Atwood, President of Emory Uni-
versity.
“A rapid transit system won’t solve all our transportation
problems, but a glance at the city
from the air is a graphic lesson. There
is a limit to how much land can be
devoted to freeways and parking lots.
There is a limit to the patience of the
commuter and the amount of time
and money he is wiling to spend to
get to downtown Atlanta,” Atwood
continues.
“A rapid transit system can save
valuable land for more productive
_Dr. Sanford Atwood
uses. It can save millions of wasted hours Atlantans now
spend getting to and from work or recreation. In the
long run, rapid transit can save the citizens of Metro-
politan Atlanta and their visitors millions of dollars in time
and expense, not to mention frayed nerves from rush hour
traffic.”
“We need a rapid transit system,” Atwood concludes,
“to keep Atlanta on the move.”
HOUSE COMMITTEE ASKS FULL
STATE SUPPORT FOR MARTA
The House State and Local Government Study Commit-
tee, in its final report, recommends that the state provide the
full 10 percent of the total cost of the rapid transit system.
The Committee, with Rep. Wayne Snow, Jr., of Chicka-
mauga, as chairman, filed its final report in December.
Henry L. Stuart, MARTA General Manager, and Rep.
Jack Etheridge, MARTA Counsel, appeared before the
Committee at the State Capitol Dec. 9. The two discussed
the impact the system will have on the Metropolitan area
and the entire state, as well as the present programs and
future plans.
The Committee report summarizes the testimony and
makes its recommendation as follows:
- “The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority appeared before the
Committee and presented the pro-
posed cost of the system for the At-
lanta area. With the passage of Con-
stitutional Amendment No. 14 at the
General Election in 1966, the state is
authorized to participate in the
amount of 10% of the total cost of
the system. The total cost of build-
Rep. Wayne Snow, Jr. ing the system over the next fifteen
to twenty years will be an estimated $437 million. The
Atlanta Authority is able to utilize the free information
from the San Francisco Authority which is some three years
advanced on the Atlanta program. Those of us who travel
to Atlanta frequently and hold considerable pride for our
capital city, its progress, and its contribution to the state
and the Southeast are too frequently reminded of the in-
adequacy of the present system of freeways and the daily
drudgery endured by those who must commute at a snail’s
pace back and forth thereon.
“We are advised that 55% of the real property in the City
of Atlanta is now non-income-producing and that the city
can ill afford to give up more income-producing property
to costly freeways.
“We recommend that the state bear its 10% of the cost
of this system as the participating counties and metropolitan
Atlanta appropriate their funds.”
Members of the House of Representatives serving on the
Committee were Wayne Snow, Jr., of the 1st District,
Chairman; Lionel E. Drew, Jr., 116th; Devereaux F. Mc-
Clatchey, 138th; Roscoe Thompson, 111th; Reid W. Harris,
85th; William M. Fleming, Jr.. 106th; Roger W. Wilson,
109th; W. M. Williams, 16th; William S$. Lee. 79th; Jerry
Lee Minge, 13th; Harry Mixon, 81st; and Dr. Albert Sidney
Johnson, Sr., 25th.
May 24-26—The Annual Meeting of the INSTI-
TUTE FOR RAPID TRANSIT will be held at the
Marriott Motor Hotel. The IRT is composed of
members from all aspects of rapid transit.
ATLANTA TO HOST TWO TRANSIT CONVENTIONS IN 1967
Oct. 22-26—The annual meeting of the AMERICAN
TRANSIT ASSOCIATION will be held at the
Regency-Hyatt House. The ATA has as members
only those operating transit systems (railroads, bus
lines, rapid transit, etc.)
HUD GRANTS MARTA $369,000
An application by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
authority for $369,333 in federal funds was approved in late
December. The announcement of the grant was made Dec.
21 in Washington jointly by Georgia Senators Richard B.
Russell, and Herman Talmadge, and by Secretary Robert
C. Weaver, U. S. Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment.
The grant was the nation’s first Technical Studies Program
Grant, authorized by a 1966 amendment to the Urban Mass
Transportation Act. The federal funds will be matched by
$184,667 in local funds which are on hand or committed.
Assistant Secretary Charles M. Haar noted that HUD
“does not regard a transportation sys-
tem as something that can be super-
imposed on a city after all else is
planned or built.” Haar continued,
“Tt is our firm conviction that trans-
portation systems are a vital com-
ponent of metropolitan development,
and effective metropolitan planning
must bring the people operating the
system into the planning process at
Charles M. Haar an early stage of deliberation.”
As Assistant Secretary for Metropolitan Development.
Haar has an overall responsibility for HUD’s programs of
planning standards and coordination as well as the Urban
Mass Transportation Program.
“The basic purpose of the new program”, Haar said, “‘is
to bridge the gap between federally-assisted transportation
planning of an overall nature, and federally-assisted capital
improvements in mass transportation facilities and equip-
ment, by providing funds for preliminary functional studies
- basic need, priority, and engineering and economic feasi-
ility.”
“The $554,000 program will finance the following work:
completion of preliminary engineering on extensions to the
North-South Line; most of the preliminary engineering on
the East-West Line, and extensions to I-285 at each end of
the Line; a Rapid Transit Corridor Impact Study; and an
Impact study of the proposed system on the Atlanta Transit
System.
———
IS YOUR ADDRESS CORRECT?
Please check the address on page 4; if it is incorrect please
make corrections, and return to MARTA, 808 Glenn Building,
Atlanta, Ga., 30303
Or if you would like to have RAPID TRANSIT PROGRESS
sent to a friend, just fill out the form and return it to MARTA,
808 Glenn Building, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303
NAME
ADDRESS
STATE ZIP.
(PLEASE INCLUDE ZIP CODE)
CITY
BOARD MEMBERS MAKE FIELD
SURVEY
Members of the MARTA Board of Directors were shown
some of the various routes under consideration for the
Central, Northeast, East, and West Lines on two field trips
in January. The directors were escorted on the tours by
members of the engineering consultant firm, Parsons-Brin-
ckerhoff Tudor and Bechtel.
The directors plan to tour the routes being studied for the
South Line as soon as preliminary engineering reaches the
stage which would make a tour meaningful.
The present development schedule calls for completion of
preliminary engineering by the end of 1967. At the proper
time, tours will be arranged for cfty and county officials
associated in MARTA, as well as for members of the news
media. Also, as provided in the MARTA Act, public hear-
ings will be conducted to acquaint citizens with the plans
and route locations before final decisions are made.
In the pictures above and below, engineers are explaining how
portions of the rapid transit system could follow existing railroad
lines, The location is Southern Railway at Piedmont Road.
RAPID TRANSIT BRIEFS —
1966 ROUND-UP
MONTREAL The newest rapid transit system in the west-
ern hemisphere began operations October 14, 1966. The
Montreal METRO, patterned after the Paris METRO, has
16 miles of underground railway, with 26 stations, each
station designed by a different architect. The METRO was
built by the city thru its Public Works Department, without
financial help from superior governments, at a cost of
$213,700,000, The trains travel on rubber tires, running
on concrete tracks, and they are powered by electricity.
There are 41 nine-car trains, the usual train used during
rush hours; each car will seat 40 persons, with standing
room for 120 more passengers. Another line, to be opened
this Spring, will take passengers to “Expo 67”, the interna-
tional exhibition which begins April 28.
SAN FRANCISCO Contracts for more than $250 million
in construction work had been awarded by the end of 1966,
to build 34 miles of the 75 mile Bay Area Rapid Transit
system. Contracts totalling $300 million will be let in 1967
for another 24 miles of the system. Construction under
way includes subway, aerial, and ground level sections; the
four-mile underwater Trans-Bay Tube, and a three-mile-
long twin-bore transit tunnel through the Berkeley Hills
east of Oakland. BART passenger service is scheduled to
begin on some East Bay lines in mid-1969; San Francisco
and Trans-Bay service will commence in early 1970.
BALTIMORE The Metropolitan Transit Authority has
recommended an initial $225 million phase of rapid transit
construction for Metropolitan Baltimore. The initial phase
is for two radial lines plus portions of a downtown inner
city rail transit loop; the full system under study calls for
six radial rapid lines, an inner city downtown loop, plus ex-
press and feeder buses, The MTA recommendation went
to the Metropolitan Area Council for approval in early
January.
LOS ANGELES The Southern California Rapid Transit
District has approved $2,625,000 in contracts for prelimi-
nary planning and engineering for the first phase of a rapid
transit system.
MARTA ACTION
In its January meeting, the MARTA Board of
Directors approved amendments to the contract with
engineering consultants (Parsons-Brinckerhoff-Tudor-
Bechtel) to cover work to be performed under the new
HUD Section 9 grant of $369,333. The General
Manager was authorized to execute appropriate con-
tract with HUD for the funds, subject to review by the
Board.
The Board changed the date of the February meet-
ing because several members will be absent from the
city. The next meeting will be Wednesday, February
15, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 619, the Glenn Building,
instead of February 7.
NEW YORK The New York City Transit Authority has
ordered 400 new subway cars, and is asking for $220 mil-
lion in additional funds for improvements and extensions
in the 1967-68 fiscal year. Plans are being made for a’ new
subway tunnel under the East River between Queens and
Manhattan.
BOSTON The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Author-
ity’s Advisory Board approved a $346 million “Master
Plan” for improvements and expansion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. An interstate rapid transit compact
was signed in November, creating the Washington Met-
ropolitan Area Transit Authority. WMATA will replace
the National Capital Transportation Agency in September.
Congress has authorized construction of a 25-mile subway
and rail rapid transit system to cost $431 million. Plans call
for the system to be in operation by 1972.
EGYPT Experts are currently studying the city of Cairo,
seeking routes for what will be Africa’s first subway trans-
portation system. The first line will run north to south
along the east bank of the Nile River; a second line is
planned to go under the Nile.
TORONTO 14.5 miles of route is being added to the
Toronto subway system at a cost of $284 million. The new
8.5 mile Bloor-Danforth subway opened in February.
RAPID TRANSIT
PROGRESS
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY
8OB8 GLENN BLDG. -: 120 MARIETTA ST.. N.W. - ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303
PHONE 524-5711 (AREA CODE 404)
PROGRESS
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY
“MARTA REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE IT SERVES...”
JANUARY 1967
VOL. 2, NO. 1
STATE BUDGET PROPOSES
$500,000 FOR MARTA IN 1968-69
The state budget for fiscal 1968-1969, now being con-
sidered by the General Assembly, includes a request for
$500,000 for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority. This amount would be the first state funds
granted to MARTA; the grant is possible under the provi-
sions of Constitutional Amendment 14, passed in the
November 1966 General Election.
Governor Lester Maddox, in his budget address to the
General Assembly, January 13, included the request under
a section on “Development Propos-
als.” After outlining his major pro-
grams, the Governor stated, “Other
major proposals included in the budg-
et I am submitting today include (a
proposal to) . . . provide $250,000
in each of the fiscal years of the
biennium to match federal and local
funds for Rapid Transit in Atlanta
\ as soon as the Authority qualifies for
Gov. Lester Maddox the assistance.”
The request was part of the proposed budget drawn by
former Gov. Carl Sanders in conferences with then-Demo-
cratic Gubernatorial Candidate Lester Maddox and Re-
publican Gubernatorial Candidate Howard “Bo” Callaway.
Sanders called a news conference Dec. 21 to announce
the budget request for rapid transit. After announcing the
request for the half-million dollars, Sanders stated, “I
earnestly hope that this is just the first installment of State
support for the rapid transit system here in Atlanta. The
problem of moving people rapidly and effectively is one
that faces all of our urban areas, but it is most acute here
in our Capital City.”
“We cannot stop improving our highways—and I might
say that a fourth of Georgia’s highway money has gone
into the Atlanta area in the past four years—but we cannot
depend upon highways alone to solve our problems.”
“That is why this initial State grant is so important. We
are backing up our legislative support with hard cash, and
now the project can really get under way.”
Henry L. Stuart, General Manager of MARTA, respon-
ded with words of appreciation for the request, and ex-
plained, “The appropriation announced today will allow the
Authority to proceed with the detailed design of portions
of the rapid transit system and with some right-of-way
acquisition.”
“We expect to apply for federal funds of four times this
amount, using the State’s appropriation as the local match-
ing funds. This $500,000 thus will become $2,500,000
with the approval of federal funds on a four to one basis.”
Stuart noted that “The total construction cost of the en-
tire 66-mile system will be about $437 million. The basic
system (North-South and East-West lines) will cost about
$310 million to get into operation. It is our hope that in the
next 20 to 30 years the State will be able to provide the
maximum amount allowed under the law, which is 10 per
cent of the total cost. If this amount is provided, and the
maximum amount of federal funds are forthcoming, the
amount required from the City of Atlanta and the counties
of Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and Gwinnett will not be
excessive.”
Others present at the news conference included Roy A.
Blount, MARTA Vice Chairman; Augustus H. Sterne,
President of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; Alvin
Ferst, Chairman of the Chamber’s Rapid Transit Com-
mittee; Fulton Rep. Jack Etheridge; Curtis Driskell, Director
of Metropolitan Affairs of the Chamber; and King Elliott,
MARTA Public Information Director.
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Gov. Carl Sanders, with MARTA Vice Chairman Roy A.
Blount (left) and General Manager Henry L. Stuart (right).
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA
RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY
808 GLENN BLDG,.*120 MARIETTA ST..N.W.
ATLANTA, GA. 30303°PHONE 524-5711
“DIRECTED BY THE GEORGIA STATE
LEGISLATURE TO DEVELOP A RAPID
TRANSIT SYSTEM FORTHE S-COUNTY
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA AREA.”
Edited by Kina ELuotTr
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS:
Ricuarp H. Ricu, Chairman Roy A. Buount, Vice Chairman
Rosert F. ADAMSON, Treasurer GLENN E. BENNETT, Secretary
CITY OF ATLANTA:
Mitts B. LANE, JR. L. D. MILTON
Ricuarp H. Ricuh RAWSON HAVERTY
CLAYTON COUNTY:
Epcar BLALOCK
DEKALB COUNTY:
Roy A. BLouNT Dr. SANFORD ATWOOD
FULTON COUNTY:
W. A. PULVER MitcHetu C. BIsHoP
GWINNETT COUNTY:
K. A. McMILiton
COBB COUNTY (Observer)
Otis A. BrumMsy, JR.
MARTA STAFF:
Henry L. Stuart, General Manager |
Kine Etwviott, Director of Public Information
H. N. Jounson, Secretary to General Manager
EDUCATOR NOTES URGENT NEED
FOR RAPID TRANSIT
“Hover over Atlanta in a helicopter at five o’clock in the
afternoon, Look at the freeways and city streets jammed
with thousands of cars inching their way home, and you
know Atlanta needs a rapid transit system NOW,” says
MARTA Board member Dr. Sanford Atwood.
“From the air, downtown Atlanta seems like one vast
parking lot, a sea of cars surrounding lines of shiny new
office buildings,” says Atwood, President of Emory Uni-
versity.
“A rapid transit system won’t solve all our transportation
problems, but a glance at the city
from the air is a graphic lesson. There
is a limit to how much land can be
devoted to freeways and parking lots.
There is a limit to the patience of the
commuter and the amount of time
and money he is wiling to spend to
get to downtown Atlanta,” Atwood
continues.
“A rapid transit system can save
valuable land for more productive
_Dr. Sanford Atwood
uses. It can save millions of wasted hours Atlantans now
spend getting to and from work or recreation. In the
long run, rapid transit can save the citizens of Metro-
politan Atlanta and their visitors millions of dollars in time
and expense, not to mention frayed nerves from rush hour
traffic.”
“We need a rapid transit system,” Atwood concludes,
“to keep Atlanta on the move.”
HOUSE COMMITTEE ASKS FULL
STATE SUPPORT FOR MARTA
The House State and Local Government Study Commit-
tee, in its final report, recommends that the state provide the
full 10 percent of the total cost of the rapid transit system.
The Committee, with Rep. Wayne Snow, Jr., of Chicka-
mauga, as chairman, filed its final report in December.
Henry L. Stuart, MARTA General Manager, and Rep.
Jack Etheridge, MARTA Counsel, appeared before the
Committee at the State Capitol Dec. 9. The two discussed
the impact the system will have on the Metropolitan area
and the entire state, as well as the present programs and
future plans.
The Committee report summarizes the testimony and
makes its recommendation as follows:
- “The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority appeared before the
Committee and presented the pro-
posed cost of the system for the At-
lanta area. With the passage of Con-
stitutional Amendment No. 14 at the
General Election in 1966, the state is
authorized to participate in the
amount of 10% of the total cost of
the system. The total cost of build-
Rep. Wayne Snow, Jr. ing the system over the next fifteen
to twenty years will be an estimated $437 million. The
Atlanta Authority is able to utilize the free information
from the San Francisco Authority which is some three years
advanced on the Atlanta program. Those of us who travel
to Atlanta frequently and hold considerable pride for our
capital city, its progress, and its contribution to the state
and the Southeast are too frequently reminded of the in-
adequacy of the present system of freeways and the daily
drudgery endured by those who must commute at a snail’s
pace back and forth thereon.
“We are advised that 55% of the real property in the City
of Atlanta is now non-income-producing and that the city
can ill afford to give up more income-producing property
to costly freeways.
“We recommend that the state bear its 10% of the cost
of this system as the participating counties and metropolitan
Atlanta appropriate their funds.”
Members of the House of Representatives serving on the
Committee were Wayne Snow, Jr., of the 1st District,
Chairman; Lionel E. Drew, Jr., 116th; Devereaux F. Mc-
Clatchey, 138th; Roscoe Thompson, 111th; Reid W. Harris,
85th; William M. Fleming, Jr.. 106th; Roger W. Wilson,
109th; W. M. Williams, 16th; William S$. Lee. 79th; Jerry
Lee Minge, 13th; Harry Mixon, 81st; and Dr. Albert Sidney
Johnson, Sr., 25th.
May 24-26—The Annual Meeting of the INSTI-
TUTE FOR RAPID TRANSIT will be held at the
Marriott Motor Hotel. The IRT is composed of
members from all aspects of rapid transit.
ATLANTA TO HOST TWO TRANSIT CONVENTIONS IN 1967
Oct. 22-26—The annual meeting of the AMERICAN
TRANSIT ASSOCIATION will be held at the
Regency-Hyatt House. The ATA has as members
only those operating transit systems (railroads, bus
lines, rapid transit, etc.)
HUD GRANTS MARTA $369,000
An application by the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
authority for $369,333 in federal funds was approved in late
December. The announcement of the grant was made Dec.
21 in Washington jointly by Georgia Senators Richard B.
Russell, and Herman Talmadge, and by Secretary Robert
C. Weaver, U. S. Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment.
The grant was the nation’s first Technical Studies Program
Grant, authorized by a 1966 amendment to the Urban Mass
Transportation Act. The federal funds will be matched by
$184,667 in local funds which are on hand or committed.
Assistant Secretary Charles M. Haar noted that HUD
“does not regard a transportation sys-
tem as something that can be super-
imposed on a city after all else is
planned or built.” Haar continued,
“Tt is our firm conviction that trans-
portation systems are a vital com-
ponent of metropolitan development,
and effective metropolitan planning
must bring the people operating the
system into the planning process at
Charles M. Haar an early stage of deliberation.”
As Assistant Secretary for Metropolitan Development.
Haar has an overall responsibility for HUD’s programs of
planning standards and coordination as well as the Urban
Mass Transportation Program.
“The basic purpose of the new program”, Haar said, “‘is
to bridge the gap between federally-assisted transportation
planning of an overall nature, and federally-assisted capital
improvements in mass transportation facilities and equip-
ment, by providing funds for preliminary functional studies
- basic need, priority, and engineering and economic feasi-
ility.”
“The $554,000 program will finance the following work:
completion of preliminary engineering on extensions to the
North-South Line; most of the preliminary engineering on
the East-West Line, and extensions to I-285 at each end of
the Line; a Rapid Transit Corridor Impact Study; and an
Impact study of the proposed system on the Atlanta Transit
System.
———
IS YOUR ADDRESS CORRECT?
Please check the address on page 4; if it is incorrect please
make corrections, and return to MARTA, 808 Glenn Building,
Atlanta, Ga., 30303
Or if you would like to have RAPID TRANSIT PROGRESS
sent to a friend, just fill out the form and return it to MARTA,
808 Glenn Building, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303
NAME
ADDRESS
STATE ZIP.
(PLEASE INCLUDE ZIP CODE)
CITY
BOARD MEMBERS MAKE FIELD
SURVEY
Members of the MARTA Board of Directors were shown
some of the various routes under consideration for the
Central, Northeast, East, and West Lines on two field trips
in January. The directors were escorted on the tours by
members of the engineering consultant firm, Parsons-Brin-
ckerhoff Tudor and Bechtel.
The directors plan to tour the routes being studied for the
South Line as soon as preliminary engineering reaches the
stage which would make a tour meaningful.
The present development schedule calls for completion of
preliminary engineering by the end of 1967. At the proper
time, tours will be arranged for cfty and county officials
associated in MARTA, as well as for members of the news
media. Also, as provided in the MARTA Act, public hear-
ings will be conducted to acquaint citizens with the plans
and route locations before final decisions are made.
In the pictures above and below, engineers are explaining how
portions of the rapid transit system could follow existing railroad
lines, The location is Southern Railway at Piedmont Road.
RAPID TRANSIT BRIEFS —
1966 ROUND-UP
MONTREAL The newest rapid transit system in the west-
ern hemisphere began operations October 14, 1966. The
Montreal METRO, patterned after the Paris METRO, has
16 miles of underground railway, with 26 stations, each
station designed by a different architect. The METRO was
built by the city thru its Public Works Department, without
financial help from superior governments, at a cost of
$213,700,000, The trains travel on rubber tires, running
on concrete tracks, and they are powered by electricity.
There are 41 nine-car trains, the usual train used during
rush hours; each car will seat 40 persons, with standing
room for 120 more passengers. Another line, to be opened
this Spring, will take passengers to “Expo 67”, the interna-
tional exhibition which begins April 28.
SAN FRANCISCO Contracts for more than $250 million
in construction work had been awarded by the end of 1966,
to build 34 miles of the 75 mile Bay Area Rapid Transit
system. Contracts totalling $300 million will be let in 1967
for another 24 miles of the system. Construction under
way includes subway, aerial, and ground level sections; the
four-mile underwater Trans-Bay Tube, and a three-mile-
long twin-bore transit tunnel through the Berkeley Hills
east of Oakland. BART passenger service is scheduled to
begin on some East Bay lines in mid-1969; San Francisco
and Trans-Bay service will commence in early 1970.
BALTIMORE The Metropolitan Transit Authority has
recommended an initial $225 million phase of rapid transit
construction for Metropolitan Baltimore. The initial phase
is for two radial lines plus portions of a downtown inner
city rail transit loop; the full system under study calls for
six radial rapid lines, an inner city downtown loop, plus ex-
press and feeder buses, The MTA recommendation went
to the Metropolitan Area Council for approval in early
January.
LOS ANGELES The Southern California Rapid Transit
District has approved $2,625,000 in contracts for prelimi-
nary planning and engineering for the first phase of a rapid
transit system.
MARTA ACTION
In its January meeting, the MARTA Board of
Directors approved amendments to the contract with
engineering consultants (Parsons-Brinckerhoff-Tudor-
Bechtel) to cover work to be performed under the new
HUD Section 9 grant of $369,333. The General
Manager was authorized to execute appropriate con-
tract with HUD for the funds, subject to review by the
Board.
The Board changed the date of the February meet-
ing because several members will be absent from the
city. The next meeting will be Wednesday, February
15, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 619, the Glenn Building,
instead of February 7.
NEW YORK The New York City Transit Authority has
ordered 400 new subway cars, and is asking for $220 mil-
lion in additional funds for improvements and extensions
in the 1967-68 fiscal year. Plans are being made for a’ new
subway tunnel under the East River between Queens and
Manhattan.
BOSTON The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Author-
ity’s Advisory Board approved a $346 million “Master
Plan” for improvements and expansion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. An interstate rapid transit compact
was signed in November, creating the Washington Met-
ropolitan Area Transit Authority. WMATA will replace
the National Capital Transportation Agency in September.
Congress has authorized construction of a 25-mile subway
and rail rapid transit system to cost $431 million. Plans call
for the system to be in operation by 1972.
EGYPT Experts are currently studying the city of Cairo,
seeking routes for what will be Africa’s first subway trans-
portation system. The first line will run north to south
along the east bank of the Nile River; a second line is
planned to go under the Nile.
TORONTO 14.5 miles of route is being added to the
Toronto subway system at a cost of $284 million. The new
8.5 mile Bloor-Danforth subway opened in February.
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