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Nathan Davenport
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Reposted by Nathan Davenport
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In November 2024, before Mayor Dickens axed the project, Smith was still on the record that her NPU was “supportive of transit on the Beltline.”

It took less than a week after the Portman donations went through for her to change her stance against MARTA, which operates the Atlanta Streetcar.
In a November 2024 interview, Chairperson Courtney Smith said NPU-E was “supportive of transit on the Beltline” and “[o]pen to exploring what it looks like.”85 While NPU-E neighborhoods like Sherwood Forest and Ansley Park are “all predominantly single-family neighborhoods,” NPU-E overall is made up of roughly “50% single-family focused neighborhoods and 50% multi-family neighborhoods,” Smith explained.86 The impressive development around the NPU’s dense neighborhoods like Midtown are a part of the “Improvement District” whereas the “Garden District” is mostly houses.87 In a recent survey, Rao and others witnessed that the more populous urban NPU-E neighborhoods like Midtown, Georgia Tech, and Atlantic Station all supported Beltline rail.88 Older residential areas like Ansley Park were not ready to commit, however.89 Those residents expressed fears that Beltline rail would erode the buffer between historic single-family and commercial areas, already fraught with tension arising from “incompatible land uses.”90 In that survey, NPU-E ultimately refused to express support for Beltline rail; it gives each neighborhood an equal vote, thus weighing Midtown and its 19,000-plus residents the same as neighborhoods like Sherwood Forrest with fewer than 500 residents.91 CROWDED BELTLINE. Everyone loves a good park — and we do mean everyone. The Atlanta Beltline, the 22-mile trail along a former railroad, has become so popular that it’s getting harder for people to use it. Our AJC colleague Bill Torpy wrote about the “free for all” among walkers, bikers and scooters earlier this year. Now, it’s becoming an issue in Atlanta’s District 2 City Council race. Candidates for the downtown district weighed in during a forum on Tuesday sponsored by the Committee for a Better Atlanta. “The Beltline itself is very crowded,” said candidate Kelsea Bond. “I think this means we need more dedicated bike lanes and a network throughout the city so we’re not crowding everybody on the Beltline.” Jacob Chambers said the city needs to complete “projects Atlantans have voted on and paid for,” including light rail. Voters approved a project way back in 2016 to extend the Atlanta Streetcar by the Eastside Beltline trail — a project that has fallen behind schedule and prompted Mayor Andre Dickens to look elsewhere for the project’s first phase. Transportation was a big topic overall among the candidates, with Ocean Zotique and Alex Jones saying the city needs to make the Beltline more accessible while Courtney Smith said “simply spending more on MARTA” is not a solution.
July 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
nathandaven.com
thank you!!
July 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🙏🙏🙏
July 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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i thought the same lmfao
May 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Nathan Davenport
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!! marta CEO Collie Greenwood has not had a single two-way conversation with any transit agency executive about their respective fiscal crises
May 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
nathandaven.com
could you post this?
May 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by Nathan Davenport
alexip718.com
marta is proposing these reduction in positions:
-63% in centralized program management,
-20% in capital program delivery,
-14% in planning,
-16% in centralized program management, and
-24% in research & analysis!

Mind you, nine years into more marta, zero voter-approved projects have been opened!
May 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM