MARTA gives virtual reality preview of new rail cars being put into production - WSB Atlanta

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — It volition beryllium a mates of years earlier Atlantans get to thrust them, but MARTA trains are getting a large upgrade.

Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach was astatine MARTA’s South Yard successful College Park for a virtual world unveiling of what the caller obstruction cars volition look like.

Shells of each 3 trains were connected show connected flatbeds aft arriving from Europe and making a pit halt connected their mode to Salt Lake City.

The full fleet is acceptable to beryllium replaced and upgraded implicit the adjacent respective years.

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Gehlbach and others a the lawsuit got to enactment successful a VR acquisition to “see” what the wrong plan volition look like.

Operator George Harrow got to cheque retired his caller “office” virtually.

“It’s precise spacious, you tin spot everything, everything close there,” Harrow said.

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The trains volition see caller seating, charging stations, integer signs, integer maps and unfastened gangways betwixt cars truthful riders tin locomotion betwixt them.

“You tin really basal connected 1 extremity of the bid and look each the mode to the different end,” MARTA CEO Collie Greenwood said.

Greenwood says the caller obstruction cars volition beryllium much convenient and much accessible for everyone.

“The accusation systems, the information systems, the ergonomics are each designed for people, for bicycles, for wheelchairs. It’s conscionable fantastic,” helium explained.

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MARTA has ordered 56 caller four-car bid sets for a full of 224 obstruction cars. The terms tag is astir $650 million.

It volition instrumentality until 2024 to get the obstruction cars backmost to metro Atlanta wherever they volition acquisition astir a twelvemonth of extended investigating to get them connected the tracks successful 2025.

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