Do you love transportation?  Not the kind of wind-in-your-face-winding-through-the-Smokies-on-your-Harley-type transportation.  I mean DISCUSSING transportation options.  You do?  Do you also love interactive maps?

If you answered YES to both of those questions, first take a moment to reconsider your passions, and when that doesn’t work check out this wicked, new interactive map showing all the proposed Atlanta metro T-SPLOST projects in their color-coded glory!   (Red means transit, blue means roads, green means bike/ped).

When you click on a project on the map you get a little synopsis off to the right of the page.  For example, here’s one for the green pitchfork of Decatur streets seen in the screen-grab above…

This project complements the Clifton Corridor transit project by providing sidewalks and bicycle lanes on Claremont Road and Church Street, which will link with a planned transit station in the vicinity of Claremont Road and North Decatur Road. Additionally, this project improves signal timing and key intersections on Commerce Drive. The total cost of the project is $5,000,000, which will be entirely funded under TIA.

Pretty neat, right??  And if you zoom out to take in the full view of all the red/blue/green projects, the entire metro area looks like a giant, throbbing heart!

• Decatur receives Tree City USA designation for second straight year [Decatur Minute]
• Another shooting outside of Pin-Ups [11Alive]
• DeKalb libraries holding “Mysterious Evening” fundraiser next month [AJC]
• Big wigs rolling out support of T-SPLOST [SaportaReport]
• A bit more info on Emory Village’s new pocket park [Emory Report]
• Emory bringing back a print yearbook after 17 year lull [Emory Report]
• Shamrock Plaza LCI grant application denied [MANA]
• Birmingham’s county struggling to deal with Chapter 9 Bankruptcy [NYT]

Photo courtesy of Willamor Media via Flickr