On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > How'd they manage to get the rail line property? > > Usually, rail lines won't give up anything.
That's part of why it's expected to be a 20-25 year project. The entire loop is ~22 miles and is comprised of a variety of ownership of right of way, including a segment that's still actively used as fright rail. Most of the circle isn't actively used, and doesn't really go anywhere anymore since the factories and warehouses they use to serve are mainly condos and lofts (or abandoned) now. Some stretches are connected by land that never had any rail, those are just routes that were identified to connect everything up. My understanding is that most of it they are buying from the rail companies (or whoever), which takes a whole lot of negotiation and quite a bit of money. There are also street (and freeway) crossings that they are going to have to tunnel through or rebuild bridges to accomodate the trail/light-rail that they have planned for the project. They tore up the rail line behind us about 2 years ago and hauled all the metal away for (very valuable apparently) scrap. One of the reasons I find the project so fascinating (aside from my proximity to it) is that the entire thing was a "what if we could do this" thesis paper written by a GaTech student in the 90s. It floated around state and city offices for years without much attention till it landed on the right desk and get the attention that brought it to where it is now. It's a very ambitious project. Atlanta has some of the shittiest mass transit that you've ever conceived of, so successfully adding this layer onto that will make a massive impact to the livability of the city's core. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
