Last weekend was the semi-annual
Atlanta Streets Alive event. Similar to Bogota's Ciclovia, the Paris Plage, New York's Summer Streets and a variety of other "open street" projects, the event closes streets to cars to allow residents to bike, walk, play, and celebrate the city.
Inaugurated in 2010 on Edgewood Avenue (
photo thread here), the event has been held several more times on Edgewood. This year as part of the plan to rotate the event around the city, a 2 mile stretch of Highland Avenue was chosen. Highland connects the two pleasant historic neighborhoods of Virginia Highland and Inman Park. This edition of Streets Alive was a huge success, attracting more than 10,000 people.
The route:
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