Definition of Atlanta transit company

Since the 1920s, the Georgia Railway and Power Company (now part of Southern Company), had been losing money on transit. They commissioned a study from Beeler in 1926 but the suggestions were not enough to help. In the late-1940s most years saw double-digit percentage losses of ridership: from 125 million in 1946 down to 100 million in 1948 and finally 86 million in 1949.