Atlanta Beltline Inc., New Streetcar Route Maps, Atlanta, GA, 2015
Streetcar Route Map, Atlanta, GA, 1946
Route updated from this 1924 map.
Georgia Railway and Power Company, Streetcar Pyramid, Atlanta, GA, c. 1950
Transportation and topography were, then, two important impresses which shaped the early districts of the city. The Union Station by the Zero Mile Post became the center of a growing commercial district, while the railroads and later the streetcars which emanated beyond produced affluent clusterings along Main Street radials, commuter suburbs three to six miles from the city, and working-class districts around factories.
Tim Crimmins, "The Atlanta Palimpsest" in Urban Structure Atlanta, 1982
Streetcar Rail Construction on Marietta Street and Broad Street, Atlanta, GA, 1891 (via burnaway)
"On July 31, 2012, residents across the 10-county Atlanta region including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties, as well as the City of Atlanta have the opportunity to vote on a referendum that would fund $8.5 billion in transportation improvements through a regional one percent sales tax. If approved, the tax will fund:
- Two streetcar routes (maps, p.56-57):
- Midtown to Northeast: from North Ave. MARTA station east along North Ave. to the BeltLine, then north along BeltLine to 10th and Monroe (southeast corner of Piedmont Park) and south to Glenwood Park and connection to the Downtown streetcar at its eastern terminus
- Downtown/Midtown to Southwest:
- one branch from Ponce City Market along North Avenue towards downtown
- one branch from the western terminus of the Downtown streetcar at Centennial Olympic Park
- the two branches meet at Luckie Street. Then along North Avenue, Northside Drive, out Donald L. Hollowell Parkway, then south along the BeltLine to the intersection of Ralph David Abernathy and Cascade Ave.
- Clifton Corridor rapid transit from Lindbergh Center to Emory University and possibly on to Avondale
- MARTA northern extension to SR 140 in Roswell
- Various "state of good repair" improvements to the existing MARTA system."
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Suburbanites, please don't let this egalitarian urbanist proposal fail!