Laying the steel rails for Atlanta’s trolley car line:
“We have to have a look at reducing traffic issues. Now one Atlanta streetcar will take off 197 motor cars from the road,” says Timothy Borchers, executive director of Atlanta’s streetcar project. He grew up in Australia before coming to the U.S. to help develop trolley systems in St. Louis, Memphis, Tenn., Savannah, Ga., Tampa, Fla. and Tucson, Ariz.
“We’re going back to some of the good qualities of the past. We’re rebuilding the urban cores, and it’s not an experiment — it’s that everything that was old is new again,” Borchers says.
Atlanta’s population is 443,000. The length of the rail line is 2.6 miles at cost of $69 million. Don’t have my calculator handy, but my gut tells me the math doesn’t add up.
