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Atlanta’s Eastside Trolley Line Trail to be approved,
slated to open by Dec. 31, 2022

by David Pendered of the Saporta Report

The long-awaited Eastside Trolley Line
Trail, east of Little Five Points, is slated
to open by Dec. 31, 2022. The date is in a
contract with the PATH Foundation pending
expected approval Feb. 15 by the Atlanta
City Council.

The final configuration for the trail has
it stretching 1.6 miles through Atlanta’s
Reynoldstown, Edgewood and Kirkwood
neighborhoods toward an existing PATH
trail that extends a block west of Coan Park,
according to the legislation.

Some longtime residents have been awaiting this project since before Atlanta hosted the 1996
Olympic Games. PATH opened a portion of the trail in advance of the Olympics and this piece has
lumbering along since then.

In 2019, the city council authorized Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ administration to purchase a few
tracts of land necessary to complete the project. At that time, the city anticipated the trail could
be open as early as 2017. A city FAQ page noted:

“This 1.3 mile-long project will cost approximately
$3 million to complete and could be constructed in
2017 and 2018.”

As currently envisioned, the project will open
by the end of 2022 and its construction cost is
anticipated to be about $700,000 lower than
previously forecast.

See the full article and description of
the project by clicking the link below.

Saporta Report Article - Atlanta’s
Eastside Trolley to be approved,
slated to open by Dec. 31, 2022