Atlanta streetcar No.19 made a final run down Peachtree Street and into the history books on April 10, 1949.

Half a century later, the Atlanta City Council and J. Michael Robison, Mgt 97, chair of the nonprofit Atlanta Streetcar Inc., plan to restore the rails along the city’s most famous thoroughfare.

On Nov. 21, after more than a year of town hall meetings and feasibility studies, Robison, CEO of Lanier Parking Systems, handed the project over to Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, who announced a committee would conduct a detailed study to determine the cost, route and type of technology used.

The plan calls for a 12-mile line connecting downtown Atlanta to the Buckhead entertainment district with a shorter downtown loop connecting the newly opened Georgia Aquarium to the Martin Luther King historic district.

Robison came to Georgia Tech this fall as a College of Management IMPACT series speaker. He is profiled at http://mgt.gatech.edu/news_room/news/2005/jmrobison/index.html

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