The Chattanooga City Council is continuing its push for rail connections to other cities and regions across the southeast, including a potential partnership train-based partnership to connect it to Atlanta.
A city spokesman confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that the city was exploring connections with Atlanta, Nashville and Memphis.
If the proposal for what city officials are calling the Sunbelt Atlantic Connector moves forward, it would create a new intercity, interregional rail corridor in the southeast United States, and Atlanta would be the only Georgia city included…