Stephanie Taylor Warner Stephanie Taylor Warner

Mayor Dickens has many choices, but only one leads to Beltline Rail now!

Here we are at the beginning of 2025. The first leg of the Beltline rail project, which includes fixes to the downtown streetcar and the long-awaited Beltline rail from Krog Street to Ponce City Market on the Eastside trail, was supposed to be breaking ground this year. 

Instead, Mayor Andre Dickens paused the project …

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Stephanie Taylor Warner Stephanie Taylor Warner

The Streetcar East Extension: The Only Path to Beltline Rail this Decade

Is abandoning the downtown streetcar to focus on building light rail around the 22-mile Beltline loop the right way forward for the city of Atlanta? No, it is not.

The downtown streetcar was always intended to be extended both east and west to provide connectivity to activity centers and MARTA stations. There’s no question the existing streetcar has shortcomings but they can be fixed. 

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