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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 11, 2013
Kristen Bailey
Institute Communications
Summary Sentence:
Several bicycle projects approved by the City of Atlanta for 2013-14 will improve connectivity to campus.
Full Summary:
Several bicycle projects approved by the City of Atlanta for 2013-14 will improve connectivity to campus.
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City of Atlanta Funded Bicycle Projects
City Bike Projects Near CampusLast week, the Atlanta City Council approved $2.5 million in funding for bicycle projects during the next two years – many of which will directly border or feed into Georgia Tech’s campus.
“The Institute has gone to great lengths to improve our bike facilities on campus, installing hundreds of new bike racks, safer intersection treatments, and miles of new lanes and sharrows,” said Aaron Fowler, campus transportation planner in Parking & Transportation Services. “But with this allocation of $2.5 million in bike improvements by the City of Atlanta, we get to take a major step in improving our bike connections into campus.”
In Midtown, bike lanes will be added to the 10th Street bridge refurbishment, between Fowler and Williams Streets, and from Piedmont Avenue to Monroe Drive, connecting to the BeltLine Eastside Trail. Lanes will also be added to Hemphill Avenue in Home Park between 10th and 14th Streets. Improvements will be made to bike lanes already present on West Peachtree, running from 10th Street to North Avenue, and Fifth Street, from Williams Street to Piedmont Avenue.
Further southwest, the city’s first bike boulevard will be created near Atlanta University Center on James P. Brawley Drive, from Jefferson Street to Greensferry Avenue. Downtown, improvements will be made to the Peachtree Street corridor, from Pine Street to Peachtree Center Avenue. Other projects will improve connectivity in Inman Park, Castleberry Hill, Grant Park and other eastside areas. Some projects will use cycle tracks instead of bike lanes, providing more separation from motor vehicle traffic than just a painted lane.
According to a 2012 commuter survey conducted by Parking & Transportation Services, 8 percent of the campus community commutes by bike; however, another 24 percent voiced an interest in biking if there were safer, more convenient bike paths available. Some of the slated city projects coincide with items in a proposed Campus Bike Master Plan and work with existing lanes and sharrows on campus.
“These projects will only further our mission in promoting sustainability on campus and will give people the commute alternatives they desire,” said Fowler, who believes this is only the beginning of improved bicycle connectivity for Atlanta in the next few years.
The five City of Atlanta projects closest to campus include:
