How We Used to Get All Around K-Town

Yesterday over at KnoxViews, I saw a very cool map, showing Knoxville's public transit lines circa 1931. The map includes the city's now defunct street car lines.

If you zoom in on the larger image, you can see where the lines went to various "street car communities," such as 4th and Gill and Island Home.

It looks like the line ran as far north as Fountain City and as far east as Chilhowee Park. If you wanted to head west, you apparently had to take something called the "Electric Coach Line. " Since there's also a separate listing for the "bus line," I'm a little stumped as to what an "electric coach" is. Any ideas?

If automobile traffic is more your style, check out Michael Wender's post on Knoxify comparing the I-40 of 1960 with the present day version. My how things how changed.

Smart Neighborhood Navigation

Don Jacobs over at Navigating SmartFix40 has this to say about using neighborhood cut-throughs as a way to navigate around I-40:

...I hesitate to encourage drivers to use neighborhood roads as cut-throughs. Those cut-throughs will work for awhile, but Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV and his traffic services coordinator Lt. Eve Thomas have assured me they will be deploying officers to complaining neighborhoods to discourage speeding through communities. If you have children, you can appreciate the concerns of those residents.

Living in a cut-through neighborhood myself, I wholeheartedly concur.