Fare History
Below is the history of single one-way fares on MARTA:
- 1972: MARTA purchases the Atlanta Transit Company and reduces bus fare from US$0.40 to US$0.15.
- 1979: MARTA raises the fare to US$0.25
- 1980: MARTA raises the fare to US$0.50
- 1981: MARTA raises the fare to US$0.60
- 1987: MARTA raises the fare to US$0.75
- 1989: MARTA raises the fare to US$0.85
- 1990: MARTA raises the fare to US$1.00
- 1992: MARTA raises the fare to US$1.25
- 1996: MARTA raises the fare to US$1.50
- 2000: MARTA raises the fare to US$1.75
- 2006: MARTA completes transition from token and cash fare collection to Breeze Card smart-card system; fare remains US$1.75
- 2009: Fare is raised to $2.00 when the state legislature fails to allow MARTA to spend its own capital money on operations.
- 2011: Fare is raised to $2.50
Read more about this topic: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority History
Famous quotes containing the words fare and/or history:
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–117)