The Brief
- Riders say scheduled buses are late or never arrive.
- A new report shows 77 percent of riders missed something important.
- MARTA plans a bus network overhaul next April to improve reliability.
ATLANTA – MARTA riders say it is tough to rely on the bus service when the buses are unreliable.
A new report from the transit advocacy organization Propel ATL finds unreliable buses is the top complaint from MARTA riders — constant cancellations and “ghost buses” which appear to be coming on the MARTA app, but never do.
“You’re left at a bus stop wondering, will this bus show up or not?” Jeremiah Jones, advocacy director at Propel ATL, said.…