MattW
Conductor
Yesterday, I was playing around with where a station in Chattanooga would go so I thought I'd look for any plans the governments might have generated and work from there. Instead, I found lots of news articles with current (within the month) progress on this HSR segment. In brief, it looks like they plan to connect the airports, Hartsfield and Lovell field while generally following I-75 (or exactly following it) and passing through Atlanta, Cartersville, and Dalton at least. It also appears like they aren't committed to maglev technology yet as other articles have led us to believe. As for speed, I've seen 180mph tossed around.
There's frankly too many articles to summarize individually, so I'll just post a list in reverse-chronological order (most recent first) with the homepage of the project posted first. If you want [lots] more, you can just search Chattanooga High Speed Rail or similar terms in Google News. Last night, I had over a hundred hits.
http://atl-chatt.org/
http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1364888708/High-speed-rail-project-moves-slowly-spawns-skeptics
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/nov/09/dalton-resident-hopeful-wary-of-bullet-train/
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13463469
http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/10209075/article-Planners-cut-Rome-from-high-speed-rail-recommendations?instance=home_news_lead_story
http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/10194296/article-High-speed-rail-update-set-for-Monday?instance=home_news
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/05/high-speed-rail-plans-finalized
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/nov/05/chattanooga-atlanta-rail-plans-on-track/?local
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/05/high-speed-rail-plans-finalized
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/05/high-speed-rail-plans-fine-tuned
There's frankly too many articles to summarize individually, so I'll just post a list in reverse-chronological order (most recent first) with the homepage of the project posted first. If you want [lots] more, you can just search Chattanooga High Speed Rail or similar terms in Google News. Last night, I had over a hundred hits.
http://atl-chatt.org/
http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1364888708/High-speed-rail-project-moves-slowly-spawns-skeptics
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/nov/09/dalton-resident-hopeful-wary-of-bullet-train/
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13463469
http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/10209075/article-Planners-cut-Rome-from-high-speed-rail-recommendations?instance=home_news_lead_story
http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/10194296/article-High-speed-rail-update-set-for-Monday?instance=home_news
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/05/high-speed-rail-plans-finalized
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/nov/05/chattanooga-atlanta-rail-plans-on-track/?local
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/05/high-speed-rail-plans-finalized
http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/11/05/high-speed-rail-plans-fine-tuned