Atlanta’s Transportation List Finalized, Clifton Corridor Gets Most $$
Decatur Metro | October 13, 2011Atlanta’s 21-member regional transportatoin roundtable, made up of politicos from around the 12-county region, finalized the Transportation Investment Act project list today that will go before voters next year.
According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the biggest last minute funding “hits” were taken by…
….a planned extension of MARTA’s North rail line to Holcomb Bridge Road in Roswell, which got only $37 million, and a proposed commuter rail line linking Atlanta and Griffin, Ga., which got only $20 million. A planned extension of MARTA rail service along the Interstate 85 corridor in Gwinnett County was cut to $95 million.
Though there was talk of cutting back funding for the Clifton Corridor transit line to help fund a rail extension along I-20, the effort never materialized and the project retained it’s $700 million funding level from the draft list. However, the sole project to receive more money previously – the Midtown to Cobb rail line – was cut to $695 million. That makes the Clifton Corridor line the single largest project on the list.