A new Peachtree for $1 billion
Details emerge on proposed overhaul to add streetcars, parks

By PAUL DONSKY, MARIA SAPORTA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/14/07

More than 50 years after streetcars vanished from Atlanta, a group of business and civic leaders have a $1 billion, 20-year plan to bring them back along a dramatically revitalized Peachtree Street corridor.

Unveiled Tuesday, the recommendation envisions an overhaul of the city's signature thoroughfare to include new sidewalks and bicycle lanes, improved lighting and landscaping, buried utility lines and a string of small parks and plazas, about one every quarter-mile. The plan, which is being fine-tuned, would be financed in part with new taxes on property owners along the street.

This would be so cool.