CONNECT & PROTECT THE BIKE/LIT LANE NETWORK 

The issue

Most Atlantans want streets that work for everyone who uses them. Protected, colorful, and comfortable corridors for people biking, scooting, and using other light individual transportation (LIT) make our streets more welcoming to all and provide a safe, sustainable, and affordable way to around. But for too long, plans to build key segments of the network have been sitting on a shelf, stalled by lack of construction bids, too few project managers, or other challenges. It all boils down to a lack of priority placed on the bike/LIT lane network. By coming together to demand our elected leaders connect Atlanta’s bike/LIT network, we can ensure that we all have the freedom to get where we need to go, safely and sustainably.

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Dates to know

Nothing yet but you can attend a Transportation Committee meeting to speak up for the bike/LIT network. Committee meeting dates

The need

In 2024, our advocacy will radiate out from the Downtown network we successfully advocated for in 2023, including projects on these streets

Forsyth Street

Atlanta Department of Transportation (ATLDOT)/Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) project under construction with a bike lane that ends Alabama Street, leaving people on bikes and scooters without a safe connection between Marietta Street and the Five Points Station.   

M.L.K. Jr. Drive

ATLDOT and ADID have the opportunity to fill the gap between the recently installed award-winning protected M.L.K. Drive bike lane and the older cycle track on MLK Drive west of the stadium, creating truly safe passage for people on bikes.

Peters Street

Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has the opportunity to protect the existing bike lane, making it much safer for people getting to where they need to go on bike.

Memorial Drive

GDOT has the opportunity to extend an existing bike lane that ends at Trinity Avenue, providing a safe connection for cyclists to and from central Downtown.

Central Avenue & Pryor Street

This federally funded ATLDOT project needs to set planning milestones to stay on track.

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Learn more

• Campaign for a Safer Memorial Drive
• “Plans for Memorial Drive two-way protected bike lane” (February 15, 2024) 
• “New bike/LIT lanes for Downtown” (November 16, 2022)

In the news

• “Bike lanes on car-heavy Memorial Drive: How's that sound?” (Urbanize Atlanta, February 16, 2024)
• “New downtown Atlanta bike lanes hailed among nation's best” (Urbanize Atlanta, January 17, 2024)
• “Atlanta awarded $30M federal grant for bike and pedestrian path upgrades south of Downtown” (WXIA, February 2, 2023)
• “GDOT set to strip ‘suicide lanes’ from part of Memorial Drive” (Curbed Atlanta, March 1, 2019)