‘Ready when they are ready:’ MARTA says timeline for new train fleet hasn’t changed – WSB-TV

‘Ready when they are ready:’ MARTA says timeline for new train fleet hasn’t changed  WSB-TV

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Rolling out the new train fleet for MARTA has been delayed months and months. When the new trains were first announced, Channel 2 Action News reported that MARTA said they’d hit the tracks in 2025. Then, MARTA said the new trains would be in use before the FIFA World Cup over the summer. Now in October, CEO Jonathan Hunt wasn’t able to tell the Atlanta City Council if the new trains, built by Stadler, would be in operation by Valentine’s Day. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Channel 2’s Steve Gehlbach was at the Edgewood-Candler Park Station in DeKalb County, where riders might have been able to catch a view of MARTA testing out their new railcars.

While a vague update for city leaders was all Hunt could give during Wednesday’s Atlanta City Council Transportation Committee meeting, a spokesman for MARTA told Channel 2 Action News that the delivery timeline for the new trains hasn’t changed. For riders excited for the fleet upgrades, they can’t come soon enough. “They look like fire, like a monorail train,” one rider told Gehlbach. “I just want to ride it.” An exact timeline for new railcars to get on the tracks wasn’t available, Hunt told the city council committee that “the trains will be ready when