Clayton County Transit to Fold under Budget Pressure ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - The public transportation service that helped more than 2 million Clayton County residents get around last year will stop on March 31st. The County's Board of Commissioners voted yesterday to shut C-TRAN down in the face of funding challenges, rather than modify it.

WABE's Odette Yousef reports.

The Commission may revisit the decision if state funding becomes available. But Tom Weyandt of the Atlanta Regional Commission says it's unlikely that the General Assembly would consider C-TRAN alone:

WEYANDT: It seems to me that the issue probably needs to focus on how we're going to focus on developing a sustained source of transit funding for all the transit operations we have in the region. It's not clear how Clayton might get that any sooner.

The Assembly did not approve recent attempts to allow for regional transportation funding. So C-TRAN riders will likely have to find back-up plans for transportation.

And then there's the question of the system's workers, who are actually MARTA employees. Ryland McClendon is with MARTA:

McCLENDON: Where there are opportunities already in existence at the Authority to bring some of those employees in, those things will have to be determined

According to a Clayton County spokesperson, C-TRAN has 90 employees.

Odette Yousef, WABE News.
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