{"416841":{"#nid":"416841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"High-Speed Rail in Georgia? Watkins Helps Outline the Issues on GPB Radio","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlans to connect Atlanta to Chattanooga or Savannah or Charlotte via high-speed trains have been discussed for years, but no tangible progress has been made on any of those linkages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/local\/story\/2015\/may\/24\/light-rail-possible-bullet-traunlikely-berke\/306014\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChattanooga\u2019s mayor said recently\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the proposed line to his city likely won\u2019t get the funding it needs from the federal government and is probably dead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn GPB\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/on-second-thought\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOn Second Thought\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;May 27, assistant professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cee.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/5861\/overview\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKari Watkins\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;said Georgia needs the political will to invest in building bullet trains before the high-speed links will happen in the state. And that\u2019s the hardest part.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of things have to fall in place,\u201d she told host Celeste Headlee. \u201cFunding has to be available, both from the federal government as well as locally. We sort of have to decide that this is the direction that we\u2019re going to go.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EListen to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onsecondthought\/the-highs-and-lows-of-high\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efull segment featuring Watkins\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cee.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/5861\/overview\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKari Watkins\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;said Georgia needs the political will to invest in building bullet trains before the high-speed links will happen in the state. And that\u2019s the hardest part.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant professor Kari Watkins said Georgia needs the political will to invest in building bullet trains before the high-speed links will happen in the state. And that\u2019s the hardest part."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-06-19 14:54:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:41","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"225981":{"id":"225981","type":"image","title":"Kari Watkins","body":null,"created":"1449243566","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:26","changed":"1475894899","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:19","alt":"Kari Watkins","file":{"fid":"197418","name":"9414565077_773e7f79de_b.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/9414565077_773e7f79de_b_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/9414565077_773e7f79de_b_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":300277,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/9414565077_773e7f79de_b_0.jpg?itok=EG5dPLnM"}}},"media_ids":["225981"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4776","name":"civil and environmental engineering"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"},{"id":"12698","name":"Trains"},{"id":"168","name":"Transportation"},{"id":"5419","name":"Travel"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josh.stewart@ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJosh Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}