Virginia Highlands to Host “Atlanta Streets Alive” Festival This Weekend
Decatur Metro | May 15, 2012
This is neat. From the fest’s webpage…
Join us SUNDAY, MAY 20th on North Highland Avenue from 2pm-6pm. Two miles of North Highland will be closed to cars but open to feet. Atlanta Streets Alive takes a valuable public space – our city’s streets – and opens them up for people to play, walk, bike, breathe, and make their own. Atlanta Streets Alive is an event inspired by open streets projects all over the world. The idea originated in Bogotá, Colombia, where neighborhood activists open 70 miles of streets every Sunday for over 800,000 people to bike, skate, or use any human powered means of transportation.
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Just dreaming…if only Ponce was closed from Decatur Post Office to this Va/Hi event.
There is a Bicycle Parade that might be fun for those of you who bike:
http://www.facebook.com/events/259212857507690/
I know several people who have decorated their bikes for the occasion & it sounds like a lot of fun.
Friday is Bike to Work Day. If you are commuting by bike through Decatur be sure and stop at Decatur Bikes on Ponce de Leon for an energizer break between 7am and 10am. Coffee and pastries compliments of Dancing Goats and Sawicki’s. Thanks to Dave at Decatur Bikes for working with Decatur Active LIving to put this together. See you on your bikes this Friday!
Bogota gets 70 miles. We get two miles. Somehow, it’s not the same.
@Chris: You are so right. My first ciclovia experience in Bogota 10yrs ago made me yearn for the day Atlanta is as progressive in its thinking as Colombia (!?)