As Atlanta Beltline Inc. celebrates its 20-year anniversary, it is still up in the air on how the city will move forward to build out the vision for transit.

The most tangible Beltline rail project is putting light rail on the Eastside Trail, extending the downtown streetcar to the Beltline and continuing the rail to the Ponce City Market.

The engineering design plans for that portion are already 30 percent complete, the right-of-way is there, funding from More MARTA has been set aside, and the corridor already has the density of residents and businesses to ensure the project’s success.

After all, it was the No. 1 project promised when voters overwhelmingly passed the More MARTA referendum in 2016.

But that project was put on hold in March when Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and his team

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