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Urban Street With Overpass
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Murphy Ave, Beltline, and MARTA

Walking around Atlanta where there’s constantly changes coming.

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3 Reasons Why Town Mascots Are Underrated
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3 Reasons Why Town Mascots Are Underrated

Japan has them. US cities have them via their sports teams. And there should be more of them!

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3 Reasons Why City Parks Are Underrated
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3 Reasons Why City Parks Are Underrated

City parks are the workhorses of free, public space. They are amazing but also taken for granted.

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FDR State Park Pool
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3 Reasons Why Public Pools Are Underrated

Public pools have a bad reputation in many circles in the US, at least. I don’t know why. They are…

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Paris Built 68 New Transit Stations + 120 miles of Rail in 7 Years…for Half The Price Of American Transit
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Paris Built 68 New Transit Stations + 120 miles of Rail in 7 Years…for Half The Price Of American Transit

But change is coming – and on a huge scale. The venerable Paris Métro is about to get its most…

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Glenwood Avenue
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Bike Lanes on Glenwood

Slowly but systematically, Atlanta is becoming a better place to bike for transportation.

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MLK Marta Station View 07 2019
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Downtown Atlanta Skyline from MLK Marta Station

One of my favorite skyline views of Atlanta is the Martin Luther King Jr MARTA station. If you go up…

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Biking with Takeout
Observations

Biking with Takeout

Inspired by other cyclist’s transportation experiments, I’ve starting trying to carry a wider range of stuff on my bike.

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Westside BeltLine
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Westside BeltLine

This is a completed section of the Westside BeltLine on its way to meet up with the Southside BeltLine near…

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East BeltLine Extension
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East BeltLine Extension

This is a section of the BeltLine in Atlanta weaving its way through Reynoldstown on its way to the Southside…

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Bike Lanes
Observations

Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars

Driving is an enforced preference. The modern American city is designed to favor cars and make other ways of getting…

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Interim Southside BeltLine
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Interim Southside BeltLine

I wrote about the Future Southeast BeltLine in 2016. Well, the city now officially owns the land, and it’s a…

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Bike Saves You Money
Outdoors

5 Reasons To Start Biking For Transportation

I’ve been commuting around Athens, GA via bike for 3 years now. It all started with biking the .75 miles…

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