![]() ![]() The story mentions how the acronym has long been the subject of a racially charged joke: "You know what MARTA really stands for, don't you?" However, in the section on the effects of race on expansion and funding, the entry says MARTA is "sometimes sarcastically said to stand for 'Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta', a replacement backronym, due to the relatively low number of white riders, particularly after peak commuting hours." That sentence is cited with a 2001 AJC article about a marketing proposal designed to improve MARTA's image. The incorrect result used information from MARTA’s Wikipedia entry, which, in its first sentence, correctly defines MARTA: "Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority is the principal public transport operator in the Atlanta metropolitan area." A screenshot of a search this week for “what does MARTA stand for” returning a featured snippet that did not provide the correct answer.
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