By Atlanta BeltLine Blog contributor Melanie Lasoff Levs, reported in March 2013. If you have visited the Eastside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine even once, you have noticed its diversity – the scenery, the bikes and dogs (and other animals on and off leashes), and, most obviously, the people. Every day, people of all ages, [...] Read more

Over the course of 2012, the Atlanta BeltLine reached several new significant milestones. The 2012 Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. Annual Report reviews the highlights in all of the project’s program areas and also includes a few new features. Summaries of ABI’s work on Parks, Trails, Transit, Affordable Housing, Economic Development, Art and Sustainability are available, and [...] Read more

The New York Times profiled the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail in today’s paper. It is on the front of the National section in the print edition. Below are some excerpts: “The Eastside Trail, as the path is known, is one of the first legs of an ambitious proposal that has been in the works since the early 2000s [...] Read more

While Cycle Atlanta only burst onto the app scene a few months ago, it is already blazing trails. Cycle Atlanta supplied developers at Georgia Tech with data from the app in a transit day hack-a-thon and below is a section of the map they produced. The thickness of the line indicates the frequency of use. [...] Read more

Guest blog post by PATH Foundation co-founder and Director Ed McBrayer As the Director of PATH, I have spent a fair amount of time over the past seven years working with the Atlanta BeltLine team and neighborhood leaders to plan and build the Atlanta BeltLine Trail from Piedmont Park through east Atlanta. This project has [...] Read more

An aspect of the Atlanta BeltLine that is one of the project’s pillars, but receives less attention than parks, trails and transit, is brownfield remediation. From a regulatory perspective, brownfields have a very specific definition, but the term is often used to describe a location with some degree of contamination. Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.’s program management [...] Read more

Today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution published two opinion pieces, one by the Chairmen of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. and the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, and another by a representative of the Reason Foundation. You can read the piece by the Atlanta BeltLine chairmen here. The other piece, by Baruch Feigenbaum (which for some reason is not posted on the [...] Read more

Improving health in the community is a priority for Kaiser Permanente Georgia, as described in the following article by Dr. Rob Schreiner, their executive medical director. Kaiser Permanente Georgia donated $2.5 million for the construction of the soon-to-open Eastside Trail.  They have also launched the Every Body Walk app (found in the Apple App Store or Google [...] Read more

Following the City of Atlanta’s recent announcement of the project list it plans to fund with the 15 percent of local funds from the Transportation Referendum, there are many projects in this list for bicyclists and pedestrians to be excited about. If the referendum passes, 93 percent of Atlantans will reside within a half-mile of [...] Read more

A recent article from Switchboard shows a video produced by AARP in collaboration with StreetFilms that illustrates how walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods can help seniors. The six-minute video features conversations with residents, local officials and experts in transit-oriented development (TOD) in Arlington, Virginia—a walkable, mixed-use community with access to a variety of public transit options, entertainment [...] Read more