High speed rail between Dalton and Chattanooga? Now there is a real appeal for mass transportation between two normally obscure towns in the country. Are they kidding me? I don’t even think Greyhound makes regular stops at Dalton. Sounds like some carpet magnate’s wife wants quick trips to go shopping in Choo Choo? Yea, right! When I lived in Chattanooga, Dalton was just another bump in the road on the trip to do some serious shopping in Atlanta.
Go buy a cart and a donkey...plenty of grass along the highway.
amtrak is a total waste. we need more airports, more light rail direct to airports instead like they have in Reagan and Hartsfield. It is a total joke that you can’t take a direct train to any of the airports in and around NYC. amtrak and the limo racket will never let it happen.
Where does the GA, department of transportation grow its weed, in a Marta warehouse. Strong sh**.
Willie Green should be here to proclaim the glories of this fishwrap of a study.
I’ll be darned if ONE person in GA wants to ride this white elephant express train to nowhere.
Not even Willie Green could save it!
Somebody’s gotta ping Willie Green over at TBF so he can see this thread.
Chattanoogas metro area is 518,000
Thats 551,000 people combined, not to mention the outlying areas.
I bet the entire NE corridor has more than 1.5 million people, because according to their math, the area around these 2 cities, with a population of 551,000 is going to provide 4 million riders or 500k x 8= 4m, meanwhile 10.4m people ride the NE corridor, 10.4m ÷ 8 =1.3m. Something somewhere doesn't seem right with the math.
This thread is dedicated to the newly departed Willie green.