MARTA holding public meetings to gather input on the BeltLine and C-Loop
MARTA is holding four public meetings to gather input on the Belt Line and C-Loop, mass transit proposals for the city of Atlanta and DeKalb County. The Belt Line is a 22-mile ring of train tracks circling Atlanta, where a street car or trolley could run. The C-Loop is a rail route connecting Emory University, downtown Atlanta and the Atlanta University Center. Two meetings this week are:
• 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Antioch Baptist Church, 540 Kennedy St. N.W., Atlanta. Call 404-688-5679 for more information.
• 4-6 p.m. Wednesday at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta. Call 404-727-5166 for more information.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Thursday, September 16, 2004
The BeltLine: "mass transit darling of the region's 25-year transportation plan."
It came out on top in a 2003 study of possible transit routes, beating out bus lanes on I-285, commuter train service to Gainesville, and any new MARTA train line. Now the region is ready to invest over $680 million in the Belt Line and another intown transit route called the C-Loop because it forms a "C" linking Emory University, Lindbergh Center, downtown Atlanta and the Gallery at South DeKalb, formerly South DeKalb Mall.
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It came out on top in a 2003 study of possible transit routes, beating out bus lanes on I-285, commuter train service to Gainesville, and any new MARTA train line. Now the region is ready to invest over $680 million in the Belt Line and another intown transit route called the C-Loop because it forms a "C" linking Emory University, Lindbergh Center, downtown Atlanta and the Gallery at South DeKalb, formerly South DeKalb Mall.
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Monday, September 13, 2004
Thursday, September 02, 2004
The Vision for NYC's High Line:
When the High Line is converted to public open space, you will be able to rise up from the streets and step into a place apart, tranquil and green. You will see the Hudson River, the Manhattan skyline, and secret gardens inside city blocks as you've never seen them before. You will move between Penn Station and the Hudson River Park, from the convention center to the Gansevoort Market Historic District, without meeting a car or truck. The High Line will be a promenade—a linear public place where you will see and be seen. You will sense New York's industrial past in the rivets and girders. You will perceive the future unrolling before you in an artfully designed environment of unprecedented innovation. It will be yours—public in the truest sense of the word. Public dollars helped build it in the 1930s. Public legislation empowers us to make it a place anyone can visit. It will be proof New York City no longer casts aside its priceless transportation infrastructure but instead creates bold new uses for these monuments to human power and ambition.*
The Vision for Atlanta's BeltLine:
Now imagine this same scenario in Atlanta encompassing 22 miles instead of 2.5!
*Source: Friends of the High Line
When the High Line is converted to public open space, you will be able to rise up from the streets and step into a place apart, tranquil and green. You will see the Hudson River, the Manhattan skyline, and secret gardens inside city blocks as you've never seen them before. You will move between Penn Station and the Hudson River Park, from the convention center to the Gansevoort Market Historic District, without meeting a car or truck. The High Line will be a promenade—a linear public place where you will see and be seen. You will sense New York's industrial past in the rivets and girders. You will perceive the future unrolling before you in an artfully designed environment of unprecedented innovation. It will be yours—public in the truest sense of the word. Public dollars helped build it in the 1930s. Public legislation empowers us to make it a place anyone can visit. It will be proof New York City no longer casts aside its priceless transportation infrastructure but instead creates bold new uses for these monuments to human power and ambition.*
The Vision for Atlanta's BeltLine:
Now imagine this same scenario in Atlanta encompassing 22 miles instead of 2.5!
*Source: Friends of the High Line
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