Oh, the weather outside was – lovely! Mild temperatures set the perfect scene for strolling, rolling, and biking down Peachtree Street during the final Atlanta Streets Alive of 2023, and with about three miles of our city’s signature street open to people, folks danced, face-painted, and connected. Free Bikes 4 Kidz Atlanta helped families and kids find the perfect rides on two wheels – and helmets from Lime, too. And people stopped by Propel ATL’s tent to chalk the street and click QR codes to support the city’s fulfillment of its promise of better, safer street infrastructure through its Moving Atlanta Forward projects.  You also told us how much you love streets that are accessible to everyone! Us, too, guys. Onto the photos and videos.   Read more

The City of Atlanta has appointed Propel ATL Executive Director Rebecca Serna to a commission to review all fatal vehicle collisions on the city’s surface streets. The City established the Atlanta Fatal Vehicle Collision Review Commission on June 20, 2023 after months of work on the part of Propel ATL advocating for a unit to examine the root causes behind fatal crashes, and with the support of City Councilmember Dustin Hillis. Read more

Propel ATL is pleased to announce it has received a $70,947.84 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. The grant, which will continue through September 2024, supports community education efforts to improve bicycle safety and reduce crashes and injuries of bikers and other vulnerable road users.  Read more

More than a year after the City of Atlanta announced a plan to advance $460 million in transformational infrastructure, including much-needed sidewalks, accessible curb ramps, bike lanes, and more, transportation projects in the “Moving Atlanta Forward” program haven’t moved much at all. That needs to change.  Read more

A network of organizations dedicated to making our city’s transit better has named three chief advocacy areas for 2024. Learn about all three below. Read more

By Phill Kelly, GPNA transportation committee chair In some ways, it feels like we are starting from scratch. After two years of COVID-era delays, the South Boulevard Complete Streets project seems to have all-new everything: a new team of designers, a new traffic study, more surveying crews, and importantly, a new focus on Vision Zero for the upcoming final concept design. This news was shared at a community meeting about the South Boulevard project hosted by Atlanta City Councilmember Jason Winston and the Atlanta Department of Transportation (ATLDOT) on Thursday, November 16. Read more

By Heather Mase, Graduate student in Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning and Research Assistant with the Friendly Cities Lab, guest blogger In the past decade, nearly half of all Atlanta’s reported pedestrian-involved vehicle collisions occurred within 100 feet of a signalized intersection. One in ten resulted in serious injuries to pedestrians — or death. In real numbers, since 2013, at least 178 pedestrians have been seriously injured and 40 have been killed in Atlanta’s intersections. Read more

It's not every day the City of Atlanta begins a two+ mile Complete Street project that's been on the books for eight years! On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, we joined Mayor Andre Dickens, Councilmember Dustin Hillis, the Atlanta Department of Transportation, and the Upper Westside Community Improvement District in celebrating the Howell Mill Complete Street groundbreaking, moving the project into the active construction phase.  Read more

It’s time to make a change. In 2021, 31 people were struck and killed by cars in the City of Atlanta while walking, just trying to get where they needed to go. This year, this unfortunate trend got worse, with 38 people killed while walking inside Atlanta city limits. Even one death is too many. We are seeing way too many. As news reports tell us, this local pattern is part of a national problem: The number of pedestrians being killed by cars is the highest it’s been in four decades. But we can choose to be better than that, Atlanta. Read more

Do you remember the Peachtree Shared Space pilot? Three blocks of Downtown Peachtree Street transformed into a space for people, with two vehicular lanes instead of four, opening up space to walk, roll, bike, and even dine out at cafe tables. The tactical urbanism project, removed by the City of Atlanta after nine months in March 2022 after at least one powerful detractor’s loud opposition, is returning — in smaller scale — during the next Streets Alive on Sunday, Dec. 3. Read more

“38 Reasons Why,” a new story map from Propel ATL, provides key geographic, demographic, and storytelling context for a disturbing increase in Atlanta pedestrian traffic deaths, highlighting the human lives behind the statistics and providing recommendations for making our roads safer spaces for everyone. Read more

We need your help to raise $20,000. Join us in making Atlanta streets, safe, inclusive, and thriving spaces for people to ride, walk, and roll. Giving Tuesday is coming up on Tuesday, November 28th, but don’t wait to make your gift — donate today. For more than 30 years, Propel ATL (formerly the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition) has fought to transform our streets so that all Atlantans can safely ride, walk, and roll. Atlanta can be a city where everyone moves safely, easily, and sustainably. Your contribution will help make that vision a reality.     Read more

Community members living near South Boulevard have waited since 2016 for safety improvements to create a more complete street. In 2021, we joined community members in advocating for changes to the City of Atlanta’s proposed design. Two years later, residents still experience the risks of high-speed traffic on this unchanged corridor. Now, we have a chance to push for a street redesign that would help achieve Vision Zero and support Atlantans in using more sustainable transportation to get around.  Read more

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Two great opportunities to experience healthy, vibrant open streets in Atlanta are just around the corner. And it’s October, so a costumed bike parade is definitely part of the festivities. (Read on for details!) These events are fun – but they’re more than that. We’ve all learned some truly worrying news about pedestrian safety in Atlanta. Open streets encourage us to dream: What if our streets were designed as safe spaces for people getting around by foot, wheelchair, bike, and bus, 365 days of the year?  On to the details! Read more