OT: Let's b**** about the Atlanta street car

It's a pointless venture IMO simply because people really don't go to Atlanta and think "Man, I'm at the GA Aquarium and World of Coke and CFB Hall of Fame, now if only I could make it down to the MLK Center..." If you're visiting ATL, it's usually just for a day trip or during a layover and most of the big sites are all clumped around Centennial. If you live in or aorund ATL, well you can just drive to wherever you need to go. I rarely hear of people vacationing to Atlanta and spending multiple days in which the Streetcar becomes useful to move around without paying for parking or having to walk across a pretty hilly, spread out city. Not to mention that now the Braves are gone so there's little reason to go South of Centennial and the Dome unless you go to GA State.

Now, an Athens streetcar...

All you had to do was look at the destination points to figure this one out.

Now had they planned it to run from the hotel district downtown to the sporting venues ten years ago it might have made a difference.

Georgia at one time had a "scooter rail" which ran from Chattanooga through Rome then onward to Gadsden Alabama which was used and made sense.

Yeah, doesn't even address the ongoing maintenance- that's just capital costs. Not sure what that figure would be