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• #ATLANTA MARTA UPDATE#

It would take less than two minutes for each vehicle, which can carry about 200 passengers, to make the one-mile trip. The one-mile elevated track from the Georgia State MARTA station to Turner Field with two vehicles is expected to cost about $30 million. The maglev system being proposed by AMT costs about $20 million a mile to build, and each vehicle costs about $4 million. The whole world is looking for transportation that is cheap to build and cheap to operate.” “ACS has committed to provide the financing to do the project. “This will be the first commercially viable maglev project in the United States,” said Tony Morris, AMT’s president and CEO. (AMT), a Marietta-based company that has been promoting maglev transportation for decades but has yet to build a system other than a test track and vehicle currently located in Powder Springs.ĪMT is working with Grupo ACS based in Madrid, a multibillion-dollar engineering and construction firm, that is expected to provide funding for the Turner Field maglev project. The Braves are working with American Maglev Technologies Inc. 1 impediment to why folks don’t come to more games is traffic and transportation issues,” said Mike Plant, executive vice president of business operations for the Braves, who is heading the negotiations. The maglev train, or some kind of mass transit connection to MARTA, is considered essential to the Braves, which attract about 2.5 million fans to the ballpark each year. The Braves would love to reach a new agreement - with more favorable terms - as soon as possible. The baseball team’s lease of Turner Field runs out on Dec.

The Atlanta Braves are partnering with a private company to build a maglev train from MARTA’s Georgia State station to Turner Field as a way to improve fan accessibility to the stadium.īut before that project can begin, the Atlanta Braves must first negotiate a new agreement with the city of Atlanta. Masks are required for tonight's in-person meeting at Dad's Garage.Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on July 26, 2013 What's next: Be sure to register for the meetings. Transit officials can avoid repeating history by reducing wait times, running the streetcars in a dedicated lane and giving the vehicles priority at traffic signals, says Matthew Rao of transit advocacy group Beltline Rail Now.The big question: Launched in late 2014, the figure-eight Downtown streetcar loop has failed to attract riders and spur mixed-use development. On tap for tonight are updates about the finer details: the look and feel of stations, trees, and how the sleek vehicle will coexist with the flood of bicyclists, joggers and bar crawlers who regularly use the Eastside Trail.It could open for service by 2027, MARTA says.ĭetails: MARTA planners are wrapping up preliminary engineering studies and will soon prepare the final project design. The proposed extension of the Downtown streetcar on the Beltline would start at Irwin Street near Krog Street Market and run north to Ponce City Market.On the project list: cash to connect the Beltline's western and eastern segments using a streetcar running through the heart of the city.

#ATLANTA MARTA UPDATE#