Cycling in Atlanta Is Gaining Momentum

Cullen Boudreaux / via Facebook.com/WABE

In 2014, Bicycling Magazine rated New York City the No. 1 city in America for bike friendliness. Atlanta did not enter the top 10, nor has it ever.

What’s changed is that now, it wants to. Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration announced a goal of becoming a top 10 cycling city by 2016, and began to make strides toward that goal. 

Broadcast version of story that ran on City Cafe Friday, April 12, 2013. (A shorter version ran on All Things Considered.)