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Originally Posted by Psykomonkee
If you take a look at this map of Atlanta, you'll notice that the railway does already exist if MARTA wanted to build stations and place trains that would service the North Western and South Eastern neighborhoods. Maybe even to Stone Mountain:
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You are either very new and very astute to figure this out. Or your just not paying attention. What you have described is being looked at:
As you have correctly stated, there is a fairly extensive rail network in and around Atlanta. (See below)
Some at the DOT have been trying to leverage this into a comprehensive Commuter Rail network for years:
A visionary grad student at Georgia Tech looked at the rail lines in Atlanta and came up with this concept:
Some business interests have also been pushing another concept that doesn't necessarily use the rail network, but it would enhance transit options:
If you overlay these and a few other concepts, you get a fairly comprehensive transit system:
So there are some pretty gutsy proposals out there. Now, whose going to pay for these?