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.

“Innovative projects like this are designed with the intent for Georgia and our nation to reach the  realistic goal of zero traffic deaths by the middle of this century,” said Allen Poole, Director of the  Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. “Each life saved on our roads is one less family that will have to live with the pain of losing a loved one whose life was taken from them in a traffic crash that was completely preventable” 

“Thanks to this grant, we are able to provide life-saving bike safety and skills training to hundreds of Atlantans and support pedestrian safety efforts as part of our larger mission to transform our streets into safe, inclusive, and thriving spaces for people to ride, walk, and roll,” said Propel ATL Executive Director Rebecca Serna.

The grant year for this award will be October 1 of 2025 to September 30 of 2026. 

The Governor's Office of Highway Safety's mission is to educate the public on safe driving  behaviors and implement highway safety campaigns and programs designed to reduce crashes  and eliminate fatalities and injuries on Georgia roads. 

For more information on this grant program, contact GOHS at 404-656-6996 and for more  information on GOHS and its other highway safety programs, visit www.gahighwaysafety.org.