Comments on: A High-Speed Rail Roundup http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/26/a-high-speed-rail-roundup/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mitch http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/26/a-high-speed-rail-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-63654 mitch Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:57:29 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5545#comment-63654 Unfortunately the prospect of federal funding for high speed rail is currently endangering Atlanta's Beltline light rail project, a project that has the potential to be a huge game-changer for intown Atlanta. Amtrak and GDOT, seemingly out of the blue, are trying to lay claim to a portion of the projected Beltline rail line. Because they might want to run high speed rail line through there some day to a train station that doesn't currently exist. They're in the midst of a 30 day cooling off period right now. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/20/beltline-amtrak-gdot-meeting-notes-about-decatur-belt-dispute/ Unfortunately the prospect of federal funding for high speed rail is currently endangering Atlanta’s Beltline light rail project, a project that has the potential to be a huge game-changer for intown Atlanta. Amtrak and GDOT, seemingly out of the blue, are trying to lay claim to a portion of the projected Beltline rail line. Because they might want to run high speed rail line through there some day to a train station that doesn’t currently exist. They’re in the midst of a 30 day cooling off period right now.

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/20/beltline-amtrak-gdot-meeting-notes-about-decatur-belt-dispute/

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