亚特兰大 MARTA 五点站改造预算或增至3.3亿美元：完工推迟至2031年5月，新列车 CQ400 半年内载客
位于佐治亚州富尔顿县的亚特兰大市，都会区捷运局（MARTA）总经理兼首席执行官 Jonathan Hunt 近日在市议会交通委员会上表示，市中心五点站（Five Points）改造工程的预算可能大幅上升：该项目近两年前重启时预计耗资2.3亿美元，现行预算约2.9亿美元，Hunt 估计「应该更接近3.3亿美元」，并承诺向委员会提交确切数字。MARTA 发言人 Payson Schwin 随后表示，4000万美元这一增幅估算并不准确，团队仍在评估项目修订，尚无最终答案。
延误同时推迟了工期。承建商 Skanska 表示，五点站重建的完工时间将从2029年推迟到2031年5月；项目顾问 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 也已把完工年份列为2031年。Skanska 本月早些时候报告，拆除旧五点站混凝土顶棚这一复杂工序已完成约60%，这是改造五期工程的第一期。施工期间车站保持开放，每天拆除约20万磅混凝土，下方约有5万名乘客通行。五点站是 MARTA 全部铁路线的中央换乘点，改造将把这座14.44万平方英尺的公交与铁路枢纽重塑为更具活力的市中心空间，包括一座3.2万平方英尺的木结构顶棚与三个新行人入口。按规定，超过10%的工程变更单须经 More MARTA 项目治理委员会批准，该程序尚未启动。
在同一次交通委员会会议上，Hunt 还向议员们通报，MARTA 距离投入 Stadler 制造的新型 CQ400 列车「极其接近」，只待他签署证明列车符合州与联邦安全审查的文件；他估计列车将在不到六个月内开始载客。Hunt 还表示，MARTA Rapid A-Line——一条5英里长的快速公交环线，连接市中心与 Summerhill、Peoplestown 及 Beltline——有望在2026年年底前全部建成。（据 Urbanize Atlanta 10月20日与 FOX 5 Atlanta 报道整理）
MARTA Five Points Overhaul Budget May Rise to $330 Million as Completion Slips to May 2031: New CQ400 Trains Expected to Carry Passengers Within Six Months
MARTA General Manager and CEO Jonathan Hunt recently told the Atlanta City Council's Transportation Committee, in Fulton County, Georgia, that the budget for rebuilding Five Points station downtown may jump sharply. When work relaunched nearly two years ago, the redevelopment was expected to cost $230 million; the current budget stands at about $290 million, and Hunt told committee members it "should be somewhere more like $330 [million]," while cautioning that the $40 million increase was an estimate he came up with on the spot and promising to return with exact figures. A MARTA spokesperson, Payson Schwin, later told Urbanize Atlanta the $40 million figure is not correct, but that the team is still evaluating revisions and has no final answer yet.
Delays are also pushing back completion. Construction firm Skanska says the Five Points rebuild will now finish in May 2031 instead of 2029, and project consultants Skidmore, Owings & Merrill also list 2031 as the finish line. Skanska reported in early October that deconstructing the old Five Points concrete roof is about 60 percent finished, the first of five redevelopment phases. The station, the central transfer point for all MARTA rail lines, remains open while about 200,000 pounds of concrete are removed each day and roughly 50,000 riders pass below. The project will reimagine the 144,400-square-foot bus and train hub with a 32,000-square-foot mass-timber canopy and three new pedestrian entrances. Change orders above 10 percent must be approved by the More MARTA Program Governance Committee, a process that has not yet begun.
At the same committee meeting, Hunt said MARTA is "extremely close" to deploying new Stadler-built CQ400 trains for public use, pending his signing off on documentation certifying the railcars for state and federal safety review, and estimated the trains will be accepting passengers in less than six months. He also said MARTA's Rapid A-Line, a five-mile Bus Rapid Transit loop linking downtown Atlanta with Summerhill, Peoplestown and the Beltline, is on pace to be fully complete by the end of 2026. (Compiled from Urbanize Atlanta, October 20, and FOX 5 Atlanta)
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