BeltLine Rail Now

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS AT STREETS ALIVE THIS SUNDAY! PLEASE RSVP.

StreetsAlive moves to the Westside on June 14th, and BRN will be there. But we still need a FEW MORE VOLUNTEERS to staff our booth and to help at the beginning and end with setup and take-down. There are several shifts available! Want to move the conversation about Beltline rail forward with the public and the international visitors here for World Cup? We'd love to have you with us.

Signup at the linktree in our bio (IG) or at https://bit.ly/streets-alive-june-2026.

It's been a week! Heading into the holiday a week ago, Alex Taylor, chairman of Cox Enterprises (founded by his great grandfather in 1898), used the newspaper he owns, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1868) to publish an op-ed about trains being “19th century technology.”

We assume he wrote it under electric lights (1802), at a QWERTY keyboard (1870s), in order to tell Atlanta (1837) that the future of transportation is more cars (1880s). He recommends we look at Jacksonville (1822), whose autonomous minivans move a whopping 70-ish people per day as a model.

But somehow, we are supposed to believe Atlanta's modern-day would-be robber baron (1870) that electric light rail is an outdated technology? Like the other technologies above, light rail has advanced and has seen as much or more high-tech advancement as other mobility technologies.

The age of an idea is not the issue. Whether it works is.

Light rail works. Car dependence does not.

Finish the trail. Keep the green. Build the rail. 🚊🚊

AND see BRN's rebuttal to the Taylor opinion piece at https://www.ajc.com/opinion/2026/05/atlanta-beltline-rail-is-not-a-threat-failing-to-build-it-is/?gift_article_code=S3kwZXpKUlVEaW9xYnhkMlNoNGlpN0ZGMkZfLXRDRzF6enp6UXFDSTBxNDoxNzgyNTAzNjY0OmVhMjZmMWQyNzY0Njc3Njc&utm_campaign=articlegifting and again this Sunday in the AJC in the E-paper edition.