Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta

rdf:langString Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta

rdf:langString 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. * 1890 Atlanta, West End & McPherson Barracks Ry. Co. begins powered by the electric Sprague system * 1891 (May) Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company formed instigating the "" * 1892 Atlanta City Street Railway Co. begins powered by the electric Detroit system * 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