The Study will be conducted inĪccordance with guidelines established in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Georgia Environmental Policy Act (GEPA), which should protect eligibility for federal participation in funding these projects in the future.Ĭitizen involvement is a critical component of this study as it has been in previous Atlanta BeltLine studies. As a consequence, MARTA/ABI will be better positioned to preserve this right-of-way. Turning the Atlanta BeltLine dream into reality.Ī Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement will more precisely define the right-of-way required to build transit and trails in the Corridor. The environmental impact statement results from a multi-tiered (Tier 1 and 2) analysis process, which is a key step in The study will also consider any secondary effects that may surface in the future as a result of building these facilities. Quality noise and vibration land and water resources visual resources energy, geology and soils hazardous materials land use and zoning environmental justice displacements and relocations public services and utilities historical and archaeological resources The study will address potential effects on air (ABI) are conducting a Tier 1 Environmental Impact Study that will examine the impacts of building transit and trail facilities in the 22-mile Atlanta BeltLine. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. This freight activity poses a challenge as MARTA works to develop a cost-effective and environmentally sound transit route that meets all Federal safety requirements. Some segments of these freight rail lines are inactive, while some portions, particularly in The project is proposed to be constructed within existing freight rail rights-of-way that snake between the in-town neighborhoods surrounding central Atlanta. Represents a new opportunity to develop transit as part of a comprehensive plan for development and transportation.
Yet the current vision for the Atlanta BeltLine project Historically, transit has been envisioned for portions of the Atlanta BeltLine as far back as the early 1960s. Rail stations while providing the necessary transit capacity to serve planned developments for decades to come. This unique and exciting transit project has the potential to connect existing neighborhoods with existing MARTA It also wouldn't surprise me if some enterprising developer didn't try to absorb one of the stations into a high rise in the near future (I'm looking at you, North Avenue and Midtown).The proposed Atlanta BeltLine is a 22-mile facility that encircles the central portion of the City of Atlanta and includes transit, trails, and parks. I imagine that if the system were to be built today, a great deal of it would be underground, regardless of how much gneiss they had to tunnel through. When MARTA was built, property values were nowhere near as high, relatively, as they are today. Even in NY, one of the most expensive property cities in the country, the system outside Manhattan is largely above ground. As with most city systems, though, it comes down to land value. Its a trade off with softer soils that are easier to drill but need lots of reinforcement. The hard rock makes drilling tunnels easy since the tunnels are mostly self-supporting once you've done the drilling. (I am a Geologist.) Almost all of the system there is underground. New York (Manhatten) is underlain by a fairly hard schist. No amount of savings was worth all that bsĬost was probably the only factor. Greyhound or a plane for me from now on, and I suggest for you too. Their employees were all rude disinterested idiots too.
Still pretty angry about it as I re-tell it for the first time here. Several hours later I received an email apologizing and refunding everyone's tickets (kept their fee money.) so at least I made the right call finally giving up and going to get my own car, but to make matters worse, I got off driving five hours later than the bus was supposed to leave and ended up having to get a hotel room because I was falling asleep at the wheel. We stood there in the cold, not allowed to go on the bus, being harassed by bums the whole time, only to continue to be lied to until I left and rode the MARTA back home and drove myself. They lied to us for about four hours about "another bus is coming" when no bus was ever coming to replace the two buses that came and broke down. Source: Atlanta Regional Commission: 2012 Transportation Fact BookĮDIT- formatting to make it a linear list. Name of MARTA station - average weekday entries (2011)
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