New Bikeways Coming to Atlanta This Year
Several new bike projects in the Atlanta area are slated to begin construction this year. April 7, 2021, 11am PDT | Diana Ionescu |
The coming year promises a variety of new bike infrastructure in Atlanta, with new world-class bike lanes, off-road paths, and mountain-biking trails coming to the city. Thomas Wheatley reports on the upcoming projects for Atlanta Magazine.
The city s department of transportation will start construction on Complete Street overhauls think wider sidewalks, roomy bike lanes, and narrower space for automobiles on high-traffic and dangerous corridors like Cascade Road, Juniper Street, and Piedmont Avenue; safety improvements along DeKalb Avenue, one of the city’s notoriously pothole-ridden thoroughfares; and smaller projects. Commissioner of Transportation Josh Rowan wants to study whether some city traffic lights on busy bicycling routes or at hills can be programmed to give priority to bicyclists,