Transit advocate: How MARTA can quickly, noticeably improve
Josh Green
Tue, 02/11/2025 - 08:43
Most people who follow Atlanta urban planning would associate Matthew Rao with his passion project—chairing the transit advocacy group Beltline Rail Now, which he’s done since 2021. But as an Atlantan of 50 years and Georgia Tech-educated industrial designer by day, Rao has followed MARTA literally since its beginnings. His father took him, as a kid, to watch the first test-runs for MARTA’s east-west trains in the late 1970s. A spectacle, indeed.