Wow!

[yakalskovich]

Public transport? In the US?

Somebody please pinch me to prove that I'm awake and not dreaming of a better world where people suddenly see sense...

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[yakalskovich]

Wow!!! You are getting Atlanta an S-Bahn. And trams! New trams! That is bloody brilliant!!

Is that project getting stimulus package funding, or is it funded already?

The loop thing is a London type of idea; Munich or Rhein-Main area S-Bahns all orient towards the centre, and the VRR is polycentric anyway. The Detroit/Flint/Ann Arbor area would need a polycentric layout as well, I guess.-

[cracicotus.livejournal.com]

The BeltLine is 70% funded. It's going to take a while to finish the detailed planning though. I think that the only one that is "shovel ready," as they say, is the Peachtree Streetcar (tram).

There's an inaccurate short movie on it here (it has the wrong transit vehicle):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvngF4qUSgg&feature=related

The BeltLine can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGb_P5NCgE0

My own report is below. I wrote, managed, and drew up the SA 2 plan (please note that the version on-line is the draft - I've since fixed the typos). You can see many pictures of Germany in the Final Draft Report Main Body :)

http://www.beltline.org/ResourceLibrary/Planning/tabid/1824/Default.aspx

[yakalskovich]

Ahhh! What I didn't realise is that the Beltline had existed before and has to be woken up and patched, rather than being hewn through rail-unfriendly suburban neighbourhoods and abandoned industrial land.