West Midtown

[aries4118]

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[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by tonygeorgia

I think this area would be great for a new trail

Originally Posted by tonygeorgia

Where all those apartments are. I'm going to write to the Beltline and recommend this to them

I have written the Beltline concerning the railroad track which runs from Chattahoochee (a mere few hundred feet from the Beltline), up through the Bolton area, across the river, and into Cobb, which dead-ends into the Silver Comet Trail. I live right beside that track.

The track goes one place: the power plant with the big smokestack. It served one purpose, and that was to deliver coal to the plant. But the plant has shut down all of its coal operations, so now the track will be unused, from what I can tell. It is the track which becomes the Silver Comet Trail up in Smyrna. From the end of the trail to Chattahoochee, the ONLY offshoot is to the plant. If that track will indeed be unused, I think it would be an excellent idea to extend the Silver Comet Trail into West Midtown, and possibly hook up with the Beltline. That would make one hell of a trail system.

Originally Posted by aries4118

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There's a blighted, mostly-condemned apartment complex up Marietta Blvd. called Midtown West. I don't think anyone would want a part of the city with the same name as that dump.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by samiwas1

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There's a blighted, mostly-condemned apartment complex up Marietta Blvd. called Midtown West. I don't think anyone would want a part of the city with the same name as that dump.

Exactly.

[tonygeorgia]

Originally Posted by samiwas1

I have written the Beltline concerning the railroad track which runs from Chattahoochee (a mere few hundred feet from the Beltline), up through the Bolton area, across the river, and into Cobb, which dead-ends into the Silver Comet Trail. I live right beside that track.

The track goes one place: the power plant with the big smokestack. It served one purpose, and that was to deliver coal to the plant. But the plant has shut down all of its coal operations, so now the track will be unused, from what I can tell. It is the track which becomes the Silver Comet Trail up in Smyrna. From the end of the trail to Chattahoochee, the ONLY offshoot is to the plant. If that track will indeed be unused, I think it would be an excellent idea to extend the Silver Comet Trail into West Midtown, and possibly hook up with the Beltline. That would make one hell of a trail system.



There's a blighted, mostly-condemned apartment complex up Marietta Blvd. called Midtown West. I don't think anyone would want a part of the city with the same name as that dump.

Great. I will send them an email stating this later on