Thursday, August 20, 2009
News GDOT includes commuter rail in federal grant application
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Dave Williams from the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports:
The State Transportation Board instructed the agency’s staff Thursday to put rail projects on its wish list for TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants, part of the federal economic stimulus program, after learning that the department’s original list contained only highway projects.“We don’t ever consider (rail projects) as part of our process,” board member Emory McClinton of Atlanta complained during a staff update on the DOT’s plans for federal stimulus funds. “At some point, we have to change this mentality.”
The commuter rail projects include the Athens-Atlanta-Griffin (and eventually — hopefully — on to Macon) line and the long-planned downtown train terminal. The latter and segments of the former have been sitting on federal funds for years.
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