http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/28/fauver-peachtree-streetcar-stimulus-study-beltline/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/28/fauver-peachtree-streetcar-stimulus-study-beltline/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:25:51 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22924 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/28/fauver-peachtree-streetcar-stimulus-study-beltline/feed/ 7 Fauver: '...the administration thinks a project with a sizzle has a better chance of attracting money' http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/21/atlanta-city-council-approves-peachtree-streetcar-study/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/21/atlanta-city-council-approves-peachtree-streetcar-study/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:57:56 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22620 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/21/atlanta-city-council-approves-peachtree-streetcar-study/feed/ 6 Officials want to compete for up to $300 million in federal stimulus funding to build project http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/13/last-weeks-top-posts-sex-surveys-marion-barry-streetcars-and-rail-lines/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/13/last-weeks-top-posts-sex-surveys-marion-barry-streetcars-and-rail-lines/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:02:43 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22260 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/13/last-weeks-top-posts-sex-surveys-marion-barry-streetcars-and-rail-lines/feed/ 0 Atlantans do it better http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/07/peachtree-streetcar-vision-isnt-dead-yet/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/07/peachtree-streetcar-vision-isnt-dead-yet/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:53:42 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=21911 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/07/peachtree-streetcar-vision-isnt-dead-yet/feed/ 21 Downtown, Midtown groups partner with city and MARTA to pursue federal bucks http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:55:09 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/feed/ 0 SPY VS. PIE: The AP reports that Julia Child left a career as a WWII-era spy to become a chef; Child is one of several well-known Americans whose previously secret spy career was revealed this morning, as the personnel files of the pre-CIA Office of Strategic Services were declassified. SHOOTING: The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/17/peachtree-streetcar-meets-the-public-free-rides-for-peachtree-residents/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/17/peachtree-streetcar-meets-the-public-free-rides-for-peachtree-residents/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:21:54 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/17/peachtree-streetcar-meets-the-public-free-rides-for-peachtree-residents/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/17/peachtree-streetcar-meets-the-public-free-rides-for-peachtree-residents/feed/ 0 The push to make the Peachtree streetcar a reality continued its monthlong PR campaign Wednesday night just blocks from the very thoroughfare it promises to transform. A group of nearly 70 residents, business owners and students gathered around tables in one of AT&T’s mid-rise buildings on West Peachtree Street to not only hear details about [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/01/veto-of-40-million-a-disaster-%e2%80%94-or-simply-a-shame/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/01/veto-of-40-million-a-disaster-%e2%80%94-or-simply-a-shame/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:12:06 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/01/veto-of-40-million-a-disaster-%e2%80%94-or-simply-a-shame/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/01/veto-of-40-million-a-disaster-%e2%80%94-or-simply-a-shame/feed/ 0 Early this week, Gov. Perdue used his veto pen to erase a $40 million state grant to the Peachtree corridor project — the proposal to overhaul Atlanta’s signature street into a world-class thoroughfare with streetcars. While Councilwoman Clair Muller, chairwoman of Atlanta City Council’s Transportation Committee, is “disappointed” by this particular episode of Sonny Did, she [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/09/waiting-for-a-tram/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/09/waiting-for-a-tram/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 16:48:44 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/09/waiting-for-a-tram/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/09/waiting-for-a-tram/feed/ 1 I spent a wonderful week in Dublin, Ireland, and one of the more interesting experiences was riding on the LUAS (Irish for “speed”) tram the city debuted in 2004. The two tram lines, which run every four minutes down the center of Dublin, are clean and efficient and relatively inexpensive to ride (1.25 euros). Most importantly, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:28:52 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/feed/ 1 For some strange reason people in this metro love to brag about how scared MARTA makes them. I suspect many of these people are the same ones with “No Fear” stickers on their trucks. – Joe Winter at Joeventures.com, quoting a regular MARTA user. Joe has blogged extensively about the Peachtree Street streetcar proposal. He serves [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/18/john-sherman-v-the-peachtree-street-streetcar/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/18/john-sherman-v-the-peachtree-street-streetcar/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:25:01 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/18/john-sherman-v-the-peachtree-street-streetcar/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/18/john-sherman-v-the-peachtree-street-streetcar/feed/ 1 First he tried to block the Beltline, the wildly popular urban-renewal project that eventually will put a loop of light rail, parks and trails around intown Atlanta. Now John Sherman has it out for the proposed Peachtree Street streetcar, the pros and cons of which I wrote about earlier this month. And he’s using the [...]