Accessibility
Accessibility encompasses two distinct regulatory regimes — fixed-route accessibility (elevators, escalators at rail stations) under ADA Title II, and complementary paratransit (Mobility) under ADA Section 223. This tab surfaces MARTA's published performance against both.
Mobility paratransit (ADA Section 223)
ADA Section 223 requires transit agencies to provide paratransit service comparable in area, hours, and fares to fixed-route service for riders who cannot use fixed-route transit due to disability. MARTA Mobility is a shared-ride, door-to-door service operating throughout the fixed-route service area. The cards below reflect MARTA's performance against its own published targets for the most recent reporting month.
Station accessibility (ADA Title II)
ADA Title II requires rail stations to maintain accessible routes. The metrics below show the share of scheduled service hours during which elevators and escalators were available system-wide across MARTA's 38 rail stations. A 98.5% target leaves roughly 11 minutes of downtime per unit per day at perfect performance — in practice, any single extended outage pulls the system average materially below the headline figure.
Historical trend data is not currently available from MARTA in machine-readable form. This tab shows the most recent monthly snapshot. MARTA publishes KPI trends exclusively as embedded chart images, not as downloadable data. Twelve-month trend sparklines — which would allow assessing whether availability is improving, declining, or volatile — would require MARTA to publish historical values as structured data. This is a gap in MARTA's public data transparency, not a limitation of this tracker.
Station-level elevator and escalator status is not surfaced here. MARTA's KPI page publishes only system-wide availability percentages, not per-station status. A station-level accessibility grid — showing which of the 38 rail stations have functioning elevators at any given time — would require either a real-time data feed or manual collection not currently available from MARTA. That gap, too, is a transparency issue, not a dashboard limitation.