Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta

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Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta:

  • 1871 Richard Peters and George Adair run the first streetcars on the Atlanta Street Railway Company
  • 1872 West End & Atlanta Street Railroad Company formed
  • 1878 Adair sells out to Peters
  • 1879 Gate City Street Railroad Company formed
  • 1882 Metropolitan Street Railroad Company formed
  • 1883 Fulton County Street Railroad Company formed
  • 1886 Joel Hurt forms the Atlanta & Edgewood Street Railroad Co.
  • 1889 Hurt's streetcar begins to run between Five Points and Inman Park and control of Peter's company passed to son Edward C. Peters; Fulton County Street RR Co. begins powered by the electric Thomson-Houston system.[1]
  • 1890 Atlanta, West End & McPherson Barracks Ry. Co. begins powered by the electric Sprague system[2]
  • 1891 (May) Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company formed instigating the ""
  • 1892 Atlanta City Street Railway Co. begins powered by the electric Detroit system [3]
  • 1902 All street railways consolidated as Georgia Railway and Power Company
  • 1916 began at 6pm on Saturday, September 30 and ended that Monday evening, but the strike started after sundown those three days so the city wasn't completely paralyzed
  • 1924 The issued to advise the financially ailing company
  • 1926 Peak of passenger service (96,794,273)
  • 1937 Trolleybuses introduced
  • 1949 Georgia Power runs its last streetcar, leaving only trackless trolleys and buses
  • 1950 Five week Atlanta transit strike of 1950
  • 1950 Control of all transit passed to Atlanta Transit Company (ATC)
  • 1959 System officially desegregated
  • 1963 Trackless trolleys phased out leaving only buses
  • 1965 MARTA formed (March) and Cobb County votes against joining
  • 1971 Clayton and Gwinnett counties vote against joining MARTA with 4-1 margins
  • 1972 MARTA purchases ATC for $13 million thus assuming control for all public transit
  • 1975 Construction begins on MARTA rail system
  • 1979 Operation begins on MARTA rail system
  • 1999 Most recent MARTA station opens at North Springs, with no funding available for expansion since then
  • 2006 (July) all 38 MARTA stations converted to Breeze Card digital fare system
  • December 2014 The new Atlanta Streetcar begin service from downtown to the Sweet Auburn district, and Clayton county joins MARTA

Notes[]

  1. ^ Carson, O.E., The Trolley Titans, Interurban Press, Glendale, CA, 1981, p.xi
  2. ^ Carson, O.E., The Trolley Titans, Interurban Press, Glendale, CA, 1981, p.xi
  3. ^ Carson, O.E., The Trolley Titans, Interurban Press, Glendale, CA, 1981, p.xi

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