Here are the details from Decatur Commissioner Fred Boykin…

Tuesday, March 18! Please join fellow cyclists, metro area mayors and other elected officials for the ninth annual Georgia Rides To The Capitol event as we ride to the state capitol in support of better cycling conditions in Georgia. The Decatur ride will be led by Decatur City Commissioner Fred Boykin and leaves from the E. Lake MARTA station (north parking lot) at 10:45 am. The route is an easy paced, 5 mile ride and will be police escorted to the capitol (not the return).

Governor Nathan Deal is expected to address the cyclists at noon. FREE registration (registrants are covered by event insurance).  FREE commemorative leg bands for all who register. Donations gladly accepted! Details on the web site. Click here for the details.

If the “here” link doesn’t work – the site address is www.GeorgiaRidesToTheCapitol.org

You may recall the Atlanta-Decatur Bike Share Feasibility Study that was released in January 2013, which got folks buzzing about a bike share program that stretched across Atlanta and into downtown Decatur.  Don’t recall?  You can still pour over it’s PDFed pages HERE.

All caught up?  You also may have heard just a month or so ago, that Atlanta was moving forward with the purchase of 500 bikes that will be installed at 57 locations around the city.

“So what about Decatur?”, Peter recently asked us.

City Planning Director Amanda Thompson tells DM that Decatur is not involved in Atlanta’s bike share at this point and doesn’t have plans of participating in the next fiscal year.  Says Ms. Thompson, “It is still quite expensive to operate and we would need to identify a source of funding.”

Graphic courtesy of AtlantaBicycleShare.com