ATLANTA — The Atlanta Streetcar started operations on Dec. 30, 2014, and riders can hop on board at no charge for the rest of 2015.
The 2.7-mile streetcar line connects with MARTA, the city’s existing transit system, at Peactree Center. Plans call for the system to eventually connect to the Atlanta BeltLine, a public-private partnership that is building walking paths along abandoned, underused and active railroad right-of-ways.
The initial system has 12 stops and four electric streetcars.
A former DeKalb County police officer and reserve officer with the Clarkston Police Department has been indicted on a federal charge of unlawfully accessing government databases and tipping off drug dealers to a pending federal search warrant. While Gabriel Hoskins III, 39, of Atlanta, worked as a courtesy officer at an Atlanta apartment complex, he befriended “certain individuals” involved in trafficking marijuana, according to federal authorities. Twice, at the request of the traffickers, Hoskins requested names
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