Since its completion two years ago, the two-mile Eastside Trolley Trail's most recent extension has blossomed into a handy, safe, mostly off-street connection between Kirkwood and the Beltline that’s popular with joggers, walkers, bicyclists, and fans of local taqueria fare.
The 2025 outlook calls for the multipurpose trail to become even more connective, because it's not actually finished.
Another extension of the Eastside Trolley Trail is in the works along Flat Shoals Avenue to fully connect to the Beltline’s Eastside Trail corridor, filling a gap of several blocks in Reynoldstown, according to PATH Foundation officials.
That project will be bundled this year with another Eastside Trolley Trail extension—an Edgewood initiative called the Amani Trail, which is currently in permitting—as a means of maximizing construction and creating more seamless, multipurpose links through the neighborhoods, as the PATH Foundation recently relayed.
Beyond that, details for the two eastside multi-use trail initiatives are somewhat scarce.
A map from three years ago showing the scope of Eastside Trolley Trail construction, along with potential future links toward other trails. PATH Foundation
Suzanne Scully, PATH Foundation’s head of development, said the forecast calls for starting construction on the Amani Trail later this year, though it remains in planning and design phases for now. One purpose of the project is to allow better access to the Eastside Trolley Trail—and a safer connection for children in Edgewood to neighborhood schools.
Exactly where it could be located hasn’t been finalized.
“We’re currently doing due diligence with the city and the community residents, so it’s not appropriate to share any additional information,” Scully wrote via email. “Things can change before they are finally agreed upon, so we prefer not to put out anything official until it is.”
Meanwhile, the extension of the Eastside Trolley Trail will bring the pathway from its current eastern endpoint at Arkwright Place to the Beltline at Wylie Street (near Breaker Breaker restaurant), a distance of roughly ½ mile, Scully said.
No firm construction timeline for that extension has been established
The trail’s name is a nod to the historic Atlanta-Decatur trolley car line that once snaked through eastside streets between Cabbagetown and Agnes Scott College. The extension finished in 2023 built upon a segment installed by the PATH Foundation prior to Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Games in the mid-1990s.
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