That sentiment was a common refrain - among MARTA officials, airport planners and political leaders. “It was too expensive for the projected users,” said DeCosta, who then asked a rhetorical question.
“They couldn’t afford to do it.”īen DeCosta, who had been the airport general manager for more than a decade, said the airport studied how many international passengers actually use MARTA to get to Atlanta. “It would have been very, very expensive,” said Louis Miller, Hartsfield-Jackson’s general manager, who said that decision was made before he came to Atlanta. The new terminal is a $1.4 billion project. There was great pressure to cut the projected costs of the new terminal, and the MARTA extension didn’t make economic sense. So why was the MARTA rail line not extended to the international terminal?Ītlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, who in an ideal world would have loved to have MARTA serve the international terminal, said last week that it would have cost an estimated $300 million or more.
Unfortunately that selling point will be diminished when trying to use MARTA to get to or from the international terminal. One of Atlanta’s greatest conveniences has been that Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is one of the few cities in the nation that has its public transit system provide direct rail service to its airport. Jackson International Terminal opens on May 16, arriving passengers will no longer have to recheck their bags before they are able to leave the airport.īut if the passengers decide they want to ride MARTA to get to Atlanta, they will have to board a shuttle that will take them along the Loop Road on a 12 to 14 minute ride from the Jackson International terminal to the domestic terminal where they can board MARTA. New international terminal lacking direct MARTA access future airport master plan should focus on transit, rail - SaportaReport Close
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