Remember that opposition website to streetcars in Decatur as proposed in the Community Transportation Plan, which threatened everything but a plague of locusts if a trolley system were installed on Clairemont?

Well, here’s yet another piece of that puzzle.

Atlanta’s Transit Planning Board (comprised of MARTA, the Atlanta Regional Commission and Georgia Regional Transit Authority) is proposing a widespread mass-transit system for the metro area that includes major plans for streetcars. On the TPB’s map, streetcars don’t just connect Decatur and Emory, but extend up to Lindburgh MARTA station where they connect with a loop that runs thru Midtown and downtown and a rail that runs up I-75 to Marietta.

So, here’s the question. What if the Atlanta were to extend a streetcar network beyond Emory so that Decatur was connected to much of the metro area? Would that change your mind about light rail on Clairemont? Or is MARTA enough for you? Would you protest the idea and force the trolley to stop at Emory?

Of course all of this is hypothetical and TPB’s idea is just one “plan” among many created by different entities attempting to increase transit options in Atlanta. But its fun to think about.

[Hattip: Fresh Loaf]