Vision to dramatically increase passenger rail in metro Atlanta

Vision to dramatically increase passenger rail in metro Atlanta

Sometimes an idea is so grand it takes one’s breath away. That’s the Grand Plan — creating a rail bypass around metro Atlanta to free up hundreds of miles of track that could be used for passenger trains. Compare this idea to I-285, which became a conduit for trucks to bypass the central city. We can do the same with freight trains. Mark Hitchcock, senior director of rail and transit for Jacobs Engineering, came up with the vision about a decade…