Atlanta — Streetcar Route Adjustment

Rail Transit Online, November 2006

Another route change for the proposed Peachtree Corridor streetcar has been unveiled by the task force promoting the project.  After meetings with neighborhood groups, planners have suggested the downtown end should have two branches, one to the Atlanta University Center through the increasingly popular Castleberry Hill neighborhood, which has attracted a growing inventory of upscale restaurants and night spots.  The other segment would run along historic Auburn Avenue from the Martin Luther King Jr. historic district west to Five Points, then loop around Centennial Olympic Park to serve such major traffic generators as CNN Center, the Georgia Aquarium and the future World of Coca-Cola museum.  The northern end of the line remains unchanged along Peachtree Street through Midtown and Buckhead to the city's border with DeKalb County near Club Drive.  If all the extensions proposed so far are built, the streetcar would be over 17 mi. (27.3 km) long and carry 21,000 weekday riders.  The task force will issue a report to Mayor Shirley Franklin early in 2007 that will include a final suggested route alignment along with a blueprint on how to bring the project to fruition.