Love it or hate it, the first stage of construction of the Atlanta Streetcar will soon be underway. To make room for the construction, parts of bus routes that pass through the streetcar’s route are being shifted out of the way, beginning this Saturday, Oct. 8. The reroutes are scheduled to be in effect until at least mid-2013.
This bus stop at the intersection of Peachtree and Marietta Streets, currently served by routes 3, 16 and 110, will be out of service when construction on the streetcar project begins
Affected routes are:
- 1 – Centennial Olympic Park / Coronet Way
- 3 – Martin Luther King, Jr Drive / Auburn Avenue
- 16 – Noble
- 99 – Boulevard / Monroe Drive
- 110 – Peachtree Street “The Peach”
- 155 – Windsor Street / Lakewood Avenue
- 186 – Rainbow Drive / South DeKalb
The reroutes will leave some stretches of downtown streets – Peachtree Street between Ellis Street and Five Points Station, Auburn Avenue between Courtland and Peachtree Streets, and Edgewood Avenue between Courtland and Peachtree Streets, for example – without bus service for the better part of two years.
It will be interesting to see how the new detours, combined with last year’s service reductions, last month’s alignment and schedule changes, and last week’s fare increase go over with riders.
New maps, schedules and other details on the route modifications are at MARTA’s site.
The Oppidan Omnibus 