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MARTA - Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority..as for it being illegal to sell them or give them away, I have no freakin clue..

5 posted on 12/15/2005 11:10:26 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead 13 year old girls to prove it...)

I was listening to Boortz's radio program when he was talking about this, and then a MARTA representative called in to explain their position.

MARTA has had problems with people breaking the machines and stealing the Tokens (1 token, on ride on MARTA), then selling the stolen tokens for cash ($1.75 per token). Evidently this got so prelevant that MARTA started losing lots of money. So, rather than guard their machines, they had a Georgia State law passed making it illegal anyone except MARTA to sell a token. Boortz gave the MARTA person a really bad time about this application of the law.

I was told MARTA stands for Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta. Was I lied too?

32 posted on 12/15/2005 11:29:40 AM PST by vigilo (Everything I needed to know about George Bush and the Republican Party I learned from CFR.)