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A streetcar turning onto Auburn Avenue from Jackson Street, approaching the King Historic District stop, in 2017. The Atlanta Streetcar (also known as the Downtown Loop) is a streetcar line in Atlanta, Georgia. Testing on the line began in summer 2014 [4] with passenger service beginning as scheduled on December 30, 2014.
The last streetcar service on the old network ended in 1949; the streetcar system was quickly replaced by a trolleybus system and with buses. After decades of planning, construction of a new streetcar system, the Atlanta Streetcar, began in early 2012. [2] Consisting initially of a single route, this new streetcar line opened in December 2014.
The Atlanta Streetcar system opened at the end of 2014 and has been operated by MARTA since July 2018. [18] The streetcar is a 2.7 mile loop that operates primarily in mixed traffic in the downtown area. It runs from Centennial Olympic Park along Edgewood and Auburn avenues to the King Center and has a stop at MARTA's Peachtree Center Station.
The Atlanta streetcar strike of 1916 was a labor strike involving streetcar operators for the Georgia Railway and Power Company in Atlanta, Georgia.Precipitated by previous strike action by linemen of Georgia Railway earlier that year, the strike began on September 30 and ended January 5 of the following year.
The Atlanta Street Railway was the first streetcar system in Atlanta.. Originally chartered by the state of Georgia on February 23, 1866, by George Hillyer, John Westmoreland and John Thrasher soon after the city put such onerous demands on the company – including paving large chunks of the then totally unpaved town – that it lay dormant for years.
The Atlanta Streetcar is a modern streetcar route that is powered by an overhead line and operates in mixed vehicle traffic. The system was constructed by the City of Atlanta and was integrated into MARTA operations on July 1, 2018. [33] [34] The streetcar operates on a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) pinched loop system in Downtown Atlanta.
1896 Atlanta Constitution advertorial promoting the Nine Mile Circle 1902 map of Atlanta's streetcar network including Nine Mile Circle route. The Nine-Mile Circle (today often called the "Nine Mile Trolley") was a streetcar line of the Atlanta Street Railway, later the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway which went from downtown Atlanta to today's Virginia-Highland neighborhood as follows:
Atlanta Streetcar; R. River Line (Atlanta) River Street Streetcar; S. Streetcars in Atlanta ... This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:20 (UTC).