ATLANTA — MARTA offices saw a surge of riders on Friday looking to obtain reduced-fare cards, the kind used by seniors, those with mobility needs and other requisite circumstances, ahead of the push to launch the new Better Breeze orange tap cards this weekend.
Several people in the long line expressed their frustration with a card distribution effort that MARTA had said it would take care of for reduced-fare riders. MARTA official Nevin Grinnell explained to 11Alive’s Grace King that riders may have missed cards in their mail but that they had been working to “make sure that, as we were printing cards, that we didn’t mail them out too late.”
Grinnell acknowledged “the line is long right now, but for a lot of our customers, the cards are there waiting on them.”…