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Atlanta Unsheltered’s Jeanne Bonner says there’s preliminary talk of using magnetic levitation trains to ferry Atlanta Braves fans from Five Points to Turner Field.

The issue came up yesterday at a meeting of MARTOC, a joint committee of the Georgia House and Senate that oversees MARTA’s budget.

I’m waiting for more details from the MARTA folks. There’s talk of lots of things, but where are we on this? I think the very preliminary stages.

What’s cool is if the project were to get off the ground, it could involve a Powder Springs company called American Maglev Technology. The company has a test track near its headquarters where it tests out a lighter vehicle version of the maglev technology.

Atlanta Unfiltered’s Jim Walls has more:

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In last Thursday’s Letters section of the Marietta Daily Journal, a fellow by the name of William Owen of the Georgia Monorail Consortium wrote in and espoused the virtues of his organization’s technology — cost-efficient! creates jobs! snazzy! I couldn’t help but wonder why all this talk of newfangled super-slick rail systems sounded so familiar. And then I remembered…

Don’t get snookered, Marietta! Hugely successful cartoon sitcoms are the foretellers of the suburban doom that will befall you!

(Full disclosure: I was raised in Marietta and once worked for one of the MDJ’s weeklies. My folks still live there. I harbor no ill will toward monorails or Mr. Owens and don’t believe him to be the huckster excellently portrayed by the late Phil Hartman in the above video.)

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