Funded by a $1.75 million grant, self-driving shuttles are connecting people in Southwest Atlanta to the Beltline trail for free. The pilot program will run for 12 months and is free for all riders.
Atlanta City Council member Mary Norwood has introduced a plan to add a second paved trail to parts of the Atlanta Beltline to accommodate bikes and scooters, which light rail advocates call “ill-conceived.”
The Museum of Design Atlanta is inviting the public to take a fresh look at the city through a series of free guided tours called Jane’s Walk, part of an international event honoring urbanist writer Jane Jacobs.
A new generation of cyclists are enjoying the newly completed Southeast Beltline this week. Atlanta residents and leadership gathered for the official opening ceremony on Thursday.
Plans for mass transit on the Atlanta Beltline have stalled. Some residents would like to see development start again, while others are satisfied with the trail as it is now.
Atlanta Police Department arrested 17 people on Saturday during an unauthorized gathering of teenagers on the Beltline — and metro area authorities are looking to prevent future "teen takeovers."
On Oct. 31, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Atlanta Beltline Inc. president and CEO Clyde Higgs, and other community leaders gathered to break ground on Northwest Trail Segment 1, the first expansion in that area of Buckhead.
U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams announced on Tuesday that $207,645,161 in new federal funding has been secured for The Stitch project in downtown Atlanta and to connect the Atlanta BeltLine to the Fint River Trail.
Hundreds of apartments, retail and office space are in the future for Amsterdam Walk, a commercial district that sits along the Atlanta BeltLine in the Virginia-Highland and Morningside neighborhoods.
The route for a planned new trail is less than a mile, but it is expected to create a critical link between Downtown Atlanta to historic neighborhoods in the rapidly developing area now called the Upper Westside.
Over the past few decades, the cost of owning a home in the Atlanta metro area has risen dramatically, and that has pushed some low income residents out of the area. In his new book, Dan Immergluck, professor of urban studies at Georgia State University, says the city of Atlanta failed to protect Atlanta's poorest residents from being displaced by gentrification.
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) and PATH Foundation have selected a route for the final segment of the Northwest Trail. The trail will run alongside Peachtree Park Drive and Bennett Street, known as Corridor 6 in the Northwest Trail Feasibility Study, in Buckhead.
