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Redirecting focus of service away from Eastside Trail along Beltline would be a major setback, costing millions
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 4, 2025

"Halting this progress now would waste millions of dollars and set the project back significantly. Redirecting the focus to a different corridor would require another decade of study and design before construction could begin — essentially delaying any transit construction on the Beltline by 10-plus years.”- Beth McMillan, Director of Engagement Atlanta Beltline Inc 2007-2022 in Sunday's AJC. There is almost no major engagement effort that ABI undertook during the years it was designing the Beltline that did not involve Beth McMillan at its center. You can't fool her.

McMillan spoke out in the city's paper of record to call attention to what the Beltline has always been, what has been readied through decades and investment of millions of dollars, and what she believes is the key to the City's future-Beltline rail around ALL 22 MILES of the corridor.

We won't make progress if we stop where we are and throw all we've done away, according to McMillan. She urged Mayor Dickens to continue forward and not make a mistake with devastating consequences and to build Streetcar East to PCM AND the rest of Beltline transit as soon as we can.