Collie Greenwood, interim general manager and CEO of Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), shared his agency’s plans on using the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding as part of his testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
In part of the open session hearing entitled “Advancing Public Transportation Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,” Greenwood discussed MARTA projects that are advancing because of the law, such as the Clayton Southlake Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), that recently entered the Project Development phase of the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Program as a Small Starts Project.
Greenwood also highlighted the zero-emission buses MARTA is scheduled to put on the streets this spring, as well as the transformation of the Five Points rail station. Greenwood said his agency is looking to obtain a Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant and discretionary grants that will support the $150 million Five Points project that will remove the large canopy over the station to allow for the development of two mixed-income house towers in downtown Atlanta.
Joanna M. Pinkerton, President and CEO, Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA); Greg Regan, President, Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD); Dr. Dorothy Moses Schulz, Ph.D., Adjunct Fellow, The Manhattan Institute; and Randal O’Toole, Director, Thoreau Institute also testified before the committee.