Atlanta Streets Alive brings 4.5 miles of joy to northeast Atlanta
Dogs, mustaches, bicycles!
- Kathryn Lamb
- Join me, the Masked Bicyclist! You have nothing to fear!
On Sunday, bicyclists, pedestrians, skateboarders, rock climbers, hula hoopers, and tens of thousands of other people took over 4.5 miles of city streets to celebrate the final Atlanta Streets Alive of 2014. For more than four hours, men, women, and children frolicked along car-free Boulevard and North, North Highland, and Highland avenues. There was bicycle polo! Tactical urbanism! Trapeze acrobatics!
The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, which organizes the event, estimates that anywhere between 95,000 and almost 106,500 people attended the event.
“Seeing so many people biking and walking just blew us away,” says Rebecca Serna, the coalition’s executive director. “It just shows how much Atlantans want streets we can bike and walk on. We especially loved seeing Boulevard full of people playing in the street, hearing hoots of joy as people whizzed down the hills of North Avenue, and experiencing our first-ever bike traffic jam on Highland.”
The street festival, which is inspired by Colombia’s ciclovia, is now in its fourth year. After the jump, photos of the festivities, including the Bicycle Parade.
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