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Atlanta Forward: Transportation

A new Atlanta streetcar sits at the maintenance facility on Fort Street. Photo by Kent D. Johnson/kdjohnson@ajc.com
A new Atlanta streetcar sits at the maintenance facility on Fort Street. Photo by Kent D. Johnson/kdjohnson@ajc.com
By Tom Sabulis
June 9, 2014

The communications director for Atlanta Streetcar Inc. today talks with me about progress on the new transit line, scheduled to begin service later this year. She also sheds some light on her background and what brought her to Atlanta to work for the streetcar project. In our second piece, a young Auburn Avenue business owner shares the demands of a local business group that wants some financial relief for the losses they endured during construction.

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