Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Partridge

Deen, Presiding Judge.

On a rainy day in March 1984, appellee Partridge was proceeding northerly in the extreme right-hand lane of 1-85 and was approaching an entrance ramp when she became aware of an Atlanta Dairies truck parked on the shoulder of the road just beyond the entrance ramp. At the same time she saw a bus belonging to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), appellant here, proceeding down the entrance ramp preparatory to entering the northbound lanes of the freeway. As she approached the intersection of the ramp with the freeway itself, the bus entered her lane…