Transportation planners in metropolitan Atlanta have drawn up a preliminary map that outlines what an ambitious 12-county transit system could look like.
"Rail lines or separate heavy-construction bus lanes could stretch from downtown Atlanta to Alpharetta, to Gwinnett Place, and to Kennesaw. Arcs of dedicated bus routes or light rail could connect Marietta to Lawrenceville, Cumberland to Lithonia, Cumming to McDonough."
"It would all be unified, enabling a rider from Newnan to board the system and connect all over the metro area. If it happens."
"The Transit Planning Board is metro Atlanta's hardest drive so far to unify the region's disparate transit systems and expand them into a web that can more fully meet future needs."
"The hot buttons of who controls it and who pays for it are far from resolution, and no one pretends the network is affordable without new sources of money."
"But where the network should go to meet regional travel demand, calculated by the Atlanta Regional Commission, by the year 2030 is now laid out in a map worthy of a teeming, and sprawling, metropolis."
FULL STORY: 12-county transit web envisioned by planners
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