Atlanta, you did it! You turned out to vote in November. Now let's do it again!  Two City Council districts, D7 and D11, as well as Atlanta Public School Board of Education seats, are going to a runoff on Tuesday, December 2nd!  Local government runoffs are typically very low turnout, so your vote matters more than ever! Please show up and tell your family and friends.    Read more

On a Halloween morning that felt more treat than trick, shovels hit the dirt to mark the start of construction on the South Boulevard Safe Street Project, a milestone nearly a decade in the making. Residents, city leaders, and advocates gathered to celebrate a long-awaited transformation along Boulevard SE, one of Atlanta’s most historically significant yet long-neglected corridors. What began as a neighborhood-led call for safer walking, biking, and rolling conditions has now become a city-funded project set to deliver new sidewalks, protected bike lanes, safer crossings, and fresh pavement from McDonough Boulevard to Woodward Avenue. Construction is expected to be complete by September 2026. Read more

Propel ATL is pleased to announce it has received a $130,938.03 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS).  The grant will help finance community education efforts to improve bicycle safety and reduce crashes and injuries of people on bikes and other vulnerable road users. New this year: walk audits. These are organized site visits in which community members, Propel ATL, and transportation officials go for a walk together, pointing out what makes streets feel safe for walking–and what’s missing. These walk audits will collect data, record the conditions at a site that may not be obvious without personal experience, and gather the results and recommendations into a report communities can use to advocate for safety improvements. Read more

On Tuesday, Oct. 7, Propel ATL attended the Transit Town Hall hosted by WANF (Atlanta News First) and the Center for Civic Innovation, bringing together key leaders and advocates shaping the future of mobility across metro Atlanta.  Photos courtesy of Atlanta News First Read more

Participants have now been confirmed for a three-part election series spotlighting the most competitive 2025 City Council races. Read more

Comprehensive, bilingual survey of 900+ bus riders provides ground-level insights on MARTA performance and opportunities for improvement Propel ATL is releasing “Voices from the Bus: MARTA Riders Speak Out,” a report detailing day-to-day rider experiences on MARTA’s buses and the implications of these findings for MARTA’s operational and strategic decision-making.  This report draws on data from a survey conducted between March and July 2024, gathering responses in English and Spanish from over 900 bus riders across the MARTA service area. (A Spanish-language version of the report is here.) Read more

Over the last few years, a heavily travelled stretch of Memorial Drive has been transformed—from a dangerous, four-lane car sewer which invited high speeds, to a calmer street, with space allocated to a protected, two-way, bike and scoot lane.  Two images convey the before-and-after of the Memorial Drive redesign. Photos: Rebecca Serna/Propel ATL Read more

You have an opportunity to help envision a more complete Atlanta cycling network.Atlanta could be a great place for biking and using other small vehicles (like scooters) to get places. But the city lacks a connected and protected network of safe cycling facilities. Existing bike lanes and trails are largely disconnected from each other and inequitably distributed, which limits transportation options for everyone. A conceptual map of a future Atlanta cycling network, overlaid on existing cycling infrastructure. (Image: Aurora Innovative Solutions) Read more

Join us this October at Underground Atlanta for a three-part election event series spotlighting the city’s most competitive 2025 City Council races. Hear directly from candidates about their plans for safe, accessible, and equitable transportation in our city. Read more

At Propel ATL, we are constantly inspired by the incredible volunteers and advocates who fuel our movement for safer streets. Earlier this month, we took a moment to celebrate that collective energy, a chance to pause, reflect, and share gratitude for the people who make change possible every day. Read more

Street cycling today; safer streets tomorrow Any health worker will tell you: an active lifestyle is one of the keys to good health. But in a busy city, where motor traffic and car dependence are the norm, active travel – such as cycling – can be difficult to do safely.  This is why Propel ATL recently worked with future health workers – students at the Morehouse School of Medicine – to demonstrate safe urban cycling and new cycling infrastructure, and to point out the need for advocacy to make active travel possible for more people, in more places, from all parts of the city. Photo: Huyen Win Read more

Boulevard SE is more than just another busy road, slicing through a neighborhood. It’s part of the connective tissue of five neighborhoods, from Grant Park to Boulevard Heights to Chosewood Park, Benteen Park, and Custer/McDonough/Guice, providing access to parks, schools, and local businesses. For years, neighbors have called for safer ways to walk, bike, roll, and drive along this corridor. Fortunately, Jason Winston, the City Councilmember for the area, listened. Looking north on Boulevard, where four travel lanes turn into three, with street parking now used by restaurant patrons as much as residents. Photo: Propel ATL Read more

We are shocked and saddened at the loss of Ken Rosskopf, former Propel ATL (Atlanta Bicycle Coalition) board member and a pioneering legend in the local cycling community. Ken passed away on Saturday, Aug. 23 after sustaining injuries in a bike crash near his home in Decatur the prior evening. All photos courtesy of Bike Law Georgia. Read more

“This was a shift in responsibility. No more would the government blame ‘jaywalkers’ and ‘nuts behind the wheel’ for their deaths. Instead, when someone died on the road, government officials and traffic engineers were responsible; they had to explain how they had let it happen. And instead of designing for a perfect human, those officials began designing roads from the starting point: What might go wrong? Blame, in the form of traffic enforcement, was deprioritized. Instead, the road was built to reduce the harm of inevitable mistakes.” – Author Jessie Singer, on the rise of Vision Zero in Sweden, in her book, There Are No Accidents The aftermath of a crash on Monroe Drive at Dutch Valley Road. Photo: Propel ATL Read more

Knowing how to ride a bike is of little use if you don’t have one of your own to ride. Fortunately, participants in our Shifting Gears cycling education program didn’t have to save their pennies, or do without the two-wheeled transportation they had just learned to ride safely. Instead, over the course of two bike giveaways, Propel ATL gave out 50 bikes to program participants as well as members of the Oak Hill Child, Family and Adolescent Center and William Walker Recreation Center. An event known as Bike Family Day marks the culmination of Shifting Gears. It’s a celebration of newly acquired knowledge as well as the joy of cycling. Program participants and instructors at William Walker Recreation Center. Photo: Bavard Rahdar Read more