2026 Advocacy Goals

How will we organize, mobilize, and act to transform our streets and transit in 2026

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Where’s My Project?

Faster delivery of sidewalks, bike lanes, and traffic calming.

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Bus Service You Can Count On

MARTA prioritizes reliable bus trips.

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Maintenance That Makes Streets Safer

Safety upgrades built into resurfacing.

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No More Traffic Deaths in DeKalb County

A Vision Zero approach to street design.

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Where’s My Project?

The Atlanta Department of Transportation accelerates infrastructure delivery and prioritizes safe streets, sidewalks, bike lanes, and traffic calming.

This goal ties together four priorities from our 2026-2029 policy agenda: ATLDOT builds 10+ miles of physically separated bike lanes and 20,000+ linear feet of sidewalk per year, and completes all safety projects in Moving Atlanta Forward; creates a transparent, data-driven approach to traffic calming projects and use the $10 million in Moving Atlanta Forward dollars to eliminate the backlog of community requests; launches a "Sidewalk Squad" to fix sidewalks and a “Safety Fast-Track Team” to install quick projects that will prevent deaths and injuries; and ATLDOT communicates clearly about transportation projects, programs, and closures via a quarterly update public meeting.

Bus Service You Can Count On

MARTA improves reliability so riders can count on buses for daily travel.

Bus trip cancellations leave riders who rely on transit stranded or force them into expensive alternatives, such as rideshare. Cancellations are not reported in MARTA's on-time performance metric. The Board needs to make this a top-level metric and make progress towards resolving it at every board meeting, and trip cancellation data should be included in the public data dashboard. (MARTA’s long-awaited bus network changes are slated to roll out in Spring 2026. MARTA officials and riders alike hope the redesigned routes will improve reliability.)

Maintenance That Makes Streets Safer

Safety improvements are installed during resurfacing projects—no waiting.

Repaving streets makes it easier for car drivers to speed, which in turn makes streets more dangerous, unless safety improvements are installed at the same time. The City of Atlanta's policy is to "take every opportunity to make streets safer." Yet paving projects are often green-lit without plans for safety improvements, such as pedestrian crossings or bike lanes. (For example, the World Cup bond was used to repave dangerous corridors like Ralph McGill Boulevard without installing planned bicycle and pedestrian improvements other than minor sidewalk repairs.) As a result, Atlanta City Council will need to adopt legislation making it a clear and enforceable requirement that the Atlanta Department of Transportation install planned safety and bicycle/pedestrian improvements during resurfacing projects.

No More Traffic Deaths in DeKalb County

DeKalb County commits to Vision Zero by redesigning streets to save lives.

The number of people killed in traffic–across the board, in every kind of transportation–increased 49% in DeKalb County between 2019-2023. (The Human Cost of Mobility, Propel ATL, 2025). The county recognizes the problem and sees an opportunity to redesign streets and use proven safety strategies to save lives. DeKalb County adopting the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries (Vision Zero) by prioritizing the safe systems approach and redesigning streets is the first step.

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