You Can’t Pave your Way to Affordability
On the face of it, the BeltLine Special Services District sounds promising: How can more of a good thing possibly be bad? Without rail in the BeltLine SSD, Atlanta will cement inequity into the city fabric.
The Fierce Urgency of Now
The clock is ticking. The opportunity to build rail on the BeltLine — and its myriad benefits — will disappear if we wait too long to build it. MARTA’s current timetable is too little, too late.
Affordable Housing and Transit Options: Two Sides, Same Coin
Building the BeltLine without the rail has accelerated rising rents and home prices around the heart of our city. Affordable housing is quickly disappearing. It’s late… but it’s not too late. It’s time to do damage control.
It's Time to Bake a Bigger Pie, MARTA
MARTA is struggling to divvy up the current funding pie, so we baked them a bigger pie. BeltLine Rail Now responds to MARTA’s incorrect assertions about our funding white paper.
BeltLine Rail Now Releases Funding White Paper
It’s time for our city’s elected officials to think BIGGER on equity projects. The best way they can do that is to build transit on the BeltLine. BeltLine Rail Now just released its blueprint for funding the entire rail portion and accelerating its construction by more than a decade.
Expand Atlanta BeltLine Inc.’s Special Service District Proposal To Include Funding For Rail on the BeltLine
BeltLine Rail Now’s response to the recently proposed tax increase to complete only the trail portion of the BeltLine.
Let 'em hear your voice!
The public has until December 13th to speak out on this plan, and we’d like them to hear from you. We have built an email for you, all you have to do is click the button below. Please feel free to personalize this simple email.
March for BeltLine Rail!
Join us Sunday October 6th at 2pm at 4th Ward Skate Park to March for BeltLine Rail!
More MARTA must get more creative, faster
Nearly 20 years after the last rail stations were built, we need all the projects on the More MARTA list – improved bus service, crosstown bus rapid transit lines and light rail – and we need them now.
More MARTA needs to move more quickly
At BeltLine Rail Now, the “Now” part is as important as “Rail.” That’s why we’re disappointed that MARTA doesn't plan to build light rail on the full loop until the 2040s. We had high hopes after MARTA’s board voted to include most of the BeltLine on its project list last year, but this plan careens down the wrong track.
Come support Beltline Rail at City Hall This Wednesday
Decisions are being made now about rail on the BeltLine! Atlanta City Council President responded to our letter asking us to come to Wednesday’s Transportation Committee Meeting. Come speak for rail all the way around the BeltLine!
Meeting Today & Contact your Council Member!
Meeting today and contact your council member
Next meeting on Sunday the 19th!
Next meeting on Sunday May 19th at 1pm at Buteco - 1039 Grant Street SE near the Southside BeltLine corridor