Some rocket scientists in the Atlanta city gummint thought it would be a really neat idea to bring back streetcars. Yannow there is a reason that streetcars went away in this country. They were too expensive and no one rode them but it seems that old is new again to liberals and that is why we have bird killing inefficient windmills generating electricity.
Anyhoo, the Einsteins in Atlanta city gummint built a streetcar line that consists of a 2.7 mile loop in downtown Atlanta. It runs from Centennial Olympic Park to the King Center (a distance of about a mile) and back in a 2.7 mile loop. It was originally gonna cost about $68 million and begin running last summer but due to unforeseen circumstances it cost an additional $30 million and didn’t open until December 30. Over budget and behind schedule on a gummint program. I’m shocked! It’s gonna be free for the first three months and then cost a buck a ride after that. Streetcars will run every fifteen minutes to take people from Centennial Olympic Park to the King Center, a route they can walk in twenty minutes. City officials claim it will be jammed with tourists. It only cost around $36.3 million a mile. My prediction? Within the next five years they will tear up the tracks and repave the streets. This will be about as successful as the miniature golf course and arcade they opened up by Turner Field. It lost money from the get go just like the Atlanta Streetcar will.