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Re: PHOTOS: Atlanta Streetcar yesterday (part 1)

Posted by Jon Bell on Sat Jan 3 23:58:02 2015, in response to PHOTOS: Atlanta Streetcar yesterday (part 1), posted by Jon Bell on Fri Jan 2 18:52:37 2015.

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Thanks, everyone! I may be going to a weekend convention in Atlanta at the end of the month, which would give me a chance to do the western part of the loop out to Centennial Olympic Park.

I forgot to mention that this was my first experience with the Breeze Card, the smart card that MARTA has been using since 2006. I had to pay a buck extra for the card, in addition to loading it with a couple of fares for the train to and from downtown (the streetcars are free for now). I just have to remember to take it with me when I go back.

Jeez, it's been a long time since I've been there... looks like it must have been 2003 or 2004! I think it was partly because I didn't have other events there to piggyback a railfan excursion onto, and partly because of reports I saw for a while, about harassment of photographers.

Hopefully this streetcar line will be successful enough to breathe new life into the original idea for a line along Peachtree Street north to Buckhead and the Lenox Square area. Even when I was last there ten years ago, the stretch between the Arts Center MARTA station and Lenox Square was packed with shops and nightspots, and the bus route along there was the busiest one in the whole MARTA system.

Years ago, it looked like the Peachtree streetcar might actually get going, but then it lost momentum for some reason and they decided to go with a shorter starter line instead.


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