From the AJC:

While the new measure still bans most food and drink on those buses and trains,
steamy MARTA platforms could become slightly more bearable. The change in law
will also allow transit systems such as MARTA to sell food and drinks to
commuters who might not have brought their own. But MARTA is thinking beyond
Cokes and hot dogs.

"It's a much bigger issue," Dwight Ferrell, MARTA's deputy general manager,
said, "whether it's a newsstand or a dry cleaners. We hope that businesses will
want to place their businesses in our stations to provide greater amenities to
our customers."

Ferrell said staff will present a plan to the MARTA governing board by
September.

Before today, it was already legal for MARTA patrons to have resealable plastic
bottles of water or food and drink for children under 5 at stations and on buses
and trains. But beginning today, MARTA riders can have food and drink at the
stations and carry any beverage in a resealable plastic bottle onto trains and
buses.

Full article:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/30/new_laws.html?cxtyp\
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