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 officials said the city supports light rail on the Beltline, but the project will be shifted to build it in South Atlanta instead of the original east side plan.
Georgia lawmakers vowed they were going to rein in tax breaks for businesses this year, but their efforts came to nothing. Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday vetoed a bill to pause for two years a sales tax exemption the state gives for building and equipping computer data centers.
The Atlanta City Council voted on two pieces of legislation that could put up to $15 million towards completing parts of the city’s BeltLine trail before the World Cup in the summer of 2026.
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.
A $25 million federal grant to fund a portion of the Atlanta BeltLine’s Northeast Trail could be a significant step in helping complete the massive urban revitalization project ahead of its 2030 deadline.
On the Wednesday, Nov. 30 edition of the Georgia Today podcast: Hurricane season is over, Mercer is putting a spotlight on women's rights, a former Georgia prosecutor charged with hindering the police investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has been ordered to appear before a judge
Georgia Tech researchers have found that the citywide ban on the use of e-scooters and e-bikes at night has added hundreds of thousands of extra hours spent in traffic.
