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west point wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:56 pm There is too much emphasis on end point to end point. What about the peron who has an unreliable car that needs to go Madison - Dalton?Indeed. A significant element of NCDOT’s willingness to bankroll intra-state service on the Piedmont is the political support provided by the intermediate stops. This has even encouraged NCDOT to build new stations in the two unserved intermediate counties between Charlotte and Raleigh. Georgia’s population distribution means that getting political support from just a few intermediate places (plus Atlanta and Savannah and Macon) will make state funding practically bulletproof.
Bob Roberts wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 6:23 amI can see why there'd be pushback for that. The two trains that skip multiple stops arrive in Charlotte at 9:28 AM, and depart it at 5:30 PM. Not sure why they chose to do that, actually. I know little about the Piedmont, though.west point wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:56 pm There is too much emphasis on end point to end point. What about the peron who has an unreliable car that needs to go Madison - Dalton?Back in NC, the new Piedmont frequency will begin in July, the new schedule will result in a couple of intermediate stops getting skipped on some trains (all intermediate stations will keep the same number of trains they have today). The political pushback on that choice has been surprising.
electricron wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 1:57 pm I believe the most important reason why the North Carolina legislature supports the Piedmont as much as it does is because they actually own the NCRR stocks and over 90% of the railroad corridor.The state of Georgia owns the former Western and Atlantic from Atlanta to Chattanooga, if I'm not mistaken.
Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:43 am Off topic but still related.Several years ago, on my way back from Walker County back to the Atlanta Amtrak station, I stopped at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History and saw the General of the Great Locomotive Chase fame and a documentary about the race. Quite fascinating actually.
Reviewing the Wiki article on the W&A, I never knew that the Great Locomotive Chase, or the Andrew's Raid, went Northward, rather than South. I'm hardly a Civil War buff in this life, but I guess I had such confused with the March to the Sea, which, obviously, was Southward.
The Chase started ar Kennesaw, some 10 miles North of Atlanta, and ended at Ringgold, GA, on the GA-TN border.
GDOT gets $500K for next steps in proposed Savannah-to-Atlanta passenger train
The potential for passenger rail from Savannah to Atlanta keeps inching forward after the Georgia Department of Transportation was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Federal Rail Administration to continue studying the corridor.
The grant money came down with an announcement of $8.2 billion FRA grants across the country that were bolstered by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Georgia was one of 44 states to receive these corridor identification grants, with a couple others for corridor studies from Atlanta to Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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'Something that's important' | Local leaders hope Macon will be apart of new rail lines
The state department of transportation is in the planning process to connect the rail lines from Atlanta to Savannah. Leaders hope to add connections through Macon.
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The I-75 Central Corridor Coalition held a meeting where the Federal Railroad Administration and a representative from Amtrak spoke about creating a community rail line that could take passengers from Central Georgia to other areas of the southeast.
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"You can connect Charlotte and Savannah and Nashville, Tennessee and Birmingham, but it also has implications for long distance travel. We want to be connected to the national network and we don't want to be left standing at the station after it already left," Reichert said.
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Stennis says the funding puts this in the second phase of the three step planning process. According to a document from GDOT, the second phase is projected to last four years. There is no timeline for the rest of the project.
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