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MARTA targeted for petty bullying by state (ajc)

Under state law, MARTA has been forced to operate under restrictions and
handicaps faced by no other major transit agency in the country.

To review:

- MARTA is the only major transit agency in the country that gets no state
financial assistance. The state does help finance express bus service between
downtown and the suburbs, but it provides no financial support to MARTA, the
transit agency serving its capital city and chief economic engine.

- Despite the lack of state investment or involvement in MARTA, a special
legislative committee has long been empowered to provide "oversight" over the
transit agency. The MARTA Oversight Committee, or MARTOC, is the only such
oversight committee of a non-state agency in the Legislature.

- MARTA operates under an odd state requirement that it spend at least 50
percent of its budget on capital projects, a rule that cripples its
flexibility and ability to govern its own affairs. While the restriction is
temporarily suspended, legislators …

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