I just received an email from MARTA detailing how the individual 10 stations along the Clifton Corridor line would be constructed if the line was built.  These details weren’t included on the website, when we talked about this back on March 21st.

According to the email from Project Manager Jason Morgan, “the actual proposal includes 3 subway stations, 2 elevated stations, and 5 surface stations”.   And here’s the construction detail for the 10 individual stations, according to Mr. Morgan:

• · Lindbergh – surface (at Lindbergh Lane elevation not MARTA Rail elevation)
• · Cheshire Bridge – surface (at CSX rail elevation, not Cheshire Bridge Rd elevation)
• · Sage Hill/Briarcliff – surface (at CSX rail elevation, not Briarcliff Rd elevation)
• · CDC/Emory Point – surface (at Clifton Rd elevation)
• · Emory-Rollins – elevated
• · Emory-Clairmont – subway
• · North Decatur – subway
• · Suburban Plaza – subway
• · DeKalb Medical – surface (at N Decatur Rd elevation)
• · Avondale – elevated (on a new bridge that abuts the existing Sam’s Crossing Bridge elevation)

You can still check out the full project on MARTA’s website HERE.

Major League Baseball’s 2012 season got off to an unusual start last week — in Japan — with the A’s and M’s splitting a pair.  The Braves start play at the dysfunctional Mets tomorrow and have their home opener against Milwaukee a week from Friday.  (Brewers … Friday the 13th … What could possibly go wrong?)

Baseball in Art

Best Baseball Song: “Centerfield,” by John Fogerty.

Best Baseball Painting: “Three Umpires,” by Norman Rockwell.

Best Baseball Poem (it is National Poetry Month): it will be forever hard to top Ernest Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat.”

Best Baseball Musical Extravaganza: John McCutcheon and Chuck Brodsky will meet for nine innings of ballpark songs in a sort of musical/athletic competition that has become an annual tradition in honor of opening day.  (John, a highly accomplished multi-instrumentalist, is also a children’s book author.)  They will be joined by Atlanta Braves organist Matthew Kaminski.  Eddie’s Attic, Thursday, April 5th at 8 pm.

Not the Best Baseball Book Ever: The Great American Novel, by Philip Roth (great writer, great effort, but it just didn’t hit a home run for me; maybe a stand-up double).

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