GDOT includes commuter rail in federal grant application
August 20, 2009 at 4:24 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsDave Williams from the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports:
The State Transportation Board instructed the agency’s staff Thursday to put rail projects on its wish list for TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants, part of the federal economic stimulus program, after learning that the department’s original list contained only highway projects.
“We don’t ever consider (rail projects) as part of our process,” board member Emory McClinton of Atlanta complained during a staff update on the DOT’s plans for federal stimulus funds. “At some point, we have to change this mentality.”
But there’s a catch. Williams has that for you at the Chronicle’s site. Some of the state’s commuter rail projects include the Athens-Atlanta-Griffin (and eventually — hopefully — on to Macon) line and the long-planned downtown train terminal proposed in the Gulch.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Good news! The reason we don’t have commuter rail and other needed transit is that your legislators have not heard from you that you want this. Well, have you told them? Nope, didn’t think so. Contact them now, please.