Getting around Clayton County has gotten much easier. Each day more than 10,000 riders have hopped on buses plying nine routes throughout the county. Now MARTA has begun the process for bringing more transit options such as rail to the county.

Clayton residents voted overwhelming for a penny sales tax to bring MARTA into the community. That process began with buses, but the promise has always been that it would eventually evolve into rail or a bus rapid transit line, say local leaders like Clayton…