{"409611":{"#nid":"409611","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Assistant Professor Kari Watkins discusses high speed rail in Georgia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe future of high speed rail in Georgia is unclear at this point. Chattanooga\u2019s mayor says the bullet train that was proposed to run between his city and Atlanta will likely not get the funding it needs. The Georgia Department of Transportation is in early talks with other states about bringing high speed rail to Georgia, but nothing is on the table at this point. So, is high speed rail in Georgia\u2019s future? And what are the pros and cons that come with it? On Second Thought host Celeste Headlee speaks to Kari Watkins, Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones maintains world\u2019s only database of suburban spaces that are being re-imagined, including dead malls\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-06-02 13:45:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:31","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"subtitle","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2015\/05\/27\/high-speed-rail-georgia-will-it-ever-be-more-pipe-dream","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"127641","name":"bullet train"},{"id":"61951","name":"CEE"},{"id":"7765","name":"Georgia Public Broadcasting"},{"id":"308","name":"high speed rail"},{"id":"127651","name":"on second thought"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}