Atlanta's MARTA Buses Idle All Night Wasting Fuel, Polluting the Air and Disturbing a Neighborhood.
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MARTA has adopted a new written policy for idling buses and some rail-yard neighbors say it has made all the difference in the world.
The policy follows an I-team investigation that found MARTA was idling buses all night long at one rail-yard.
**Watch the video!***
I saw this story last night and could not believe it! MARTA has let their buses sit idle for HOURS for the last 5 YEARS at a bus yard next to a neighborhood. This is wasting fuel, causing a lot of pollution and disturbing a neighborhood with a lot of noise. Please watch the video. They went to the bus yard and filmed it on 2 nights after the head of Marta said they did not do this, Finally when they did something about it the reporter goes back and you can actually hear the crickets! Amazing.
What I don't get is how they could let this continue when they are losing a lot of money in fuel costs, let alone the other reasons listed above.
The policy follows an I-team investigation that found MARTA was idling buses all night long at one rail-yard.
**Watch the video!***
I saw this story last night and could not believe it! MARTA has let their buses sit idle for HOURS for the last 5 YEARS at a bus yard next to a neighborhood. This is wasting fuel, causing a lot of pollution and disturbing a neighborhood with a lot of noise. Please watch the video. They went to the bus yard and filmed it on 2 nights after the head of Marta said they did not do this, Finally when they did something about it the reporter goes back and you can actually hear the crickets! Amazing.
What I don't get is how they could let this continue when they are losing a lot of money in fuel costs, let alone the other reasons listed above.
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