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Jim O'Rourke Atlanta is home to professional franchises for four major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer the Braves who moved to Atlanta in 1966 were established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and are the oldest continually operating professional sports franchise in the United States the Braves won the World Series in 1995 and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005 the Braves have a new home as of 2017 having moved from Turner Field to Suntrust Park which is in the Atlanta Metropolitan area 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cumberland/Galleria Georgia, fine Evermore Community Improvement District or Highway 78 Community Improvement District covering part of the U.S 78 corridor in Gwinnett near Snellville. 6 Athens Clarke 125,694 However no member can be expelled without a vote of two-thirds of the members of the house the member belongs to. High-speed rail are special inter-city trains that operate at much higher speeds than conventional railways the limit being regarded at 200 to 320 kilometres per hour (120 to 200 mph) High-speed trains are used mostly for long-haul service and most systems are in Western Europe and East Asia the speed record is 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) set by a modified French TGV Magnetic levitation trains such as the Shanghai airport train use under-riding magnets which attract themselves upward towards the underside of a guideway and this line has achieved somewhat higher peak speeds in day-to-day operation than conventional high-speed railways although only over short distances Due to their heightened speeds route alignments for high-speed rail tend to have shallower grades and broader curves than conventional railways. . Freedom Parkway (Georgia 10) Main article: Track Africa Ridership increased during the first decade of the 21st century after implementation of capital improvements in the NEC and rises in automobile fuel costs the inauguration of the high-speed Acela Express in late 2000 generated considerable publicity and led to major ridership gains However through the late 1990s and very early 21st century Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other expenditures to break even by 2002 it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement in early 2002 David L Gunn replaced Warrington as president In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured Highways airports and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees highway fuel and road taxes and in the case of the General Fund from general taxation Gunn dropped most freight express business and worked to eliminate deferred maintenance.

McDonough pop 22,084 3 Calendar In recent times efforts at reforming passenger rail have addressed labor issues in 1997 Congress released Amtrak from a prohibition on contracting for labor outside the corporation (and outside its unions) opening the door to privatization Since that time many of Amtrak's employees have been working without a contract the most recent contract signed in 1999 was mainly retroactive. Iran (18), Qualifications for election 36/2 In 1882 the Georgia State Legislature authorized a committee led by Harris to visit the Northeast to see firsthand how technology schools worked They were impressed by the polytechnic educational models developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science (now Worcester Polytechnic Institute) the committee recommended adapting the Worcester model which stressed a combination of "theory and practice" the "practice" component including student employment and production of consumer items to generate revenue for the school. ; Rowing (14) Economic growth through this period was dominated by Atlanta and its region it was a bedrock of the emerging "New South" From the late 20th century Atlanta attracted headquarters and relocated workers of national companies becoming more diverse liberal and cosmopolitan than many areas of the state.