Awful. This is a city street. It's not a state route that Atlanta has no control over. We have no excuse for this failure.
This section of Pryor Street in the Mechaniscville neighborhood has bus stops on both sides. Skinny sidewalks. No crosswalks anywhere nearby.
And importantly, it's not alone. There are others like it intown.
This is no way to provide safe, attractive transit to Atlantans. It's no way to treat transit-dependent people. No way to reduce car trips.
Yes, we need better investment in transit for sure. But any money we spend on transit (increasing the frequency of buses, improving routes) is heavily compromised, to say the least, if streets leading to bus stops still look like this.
Redesigning streets = essential transit policy = mobility equity = social justice = climate action.
It's all tied together.
We can't pat ourselves on the back for creating ped/bike paths like the Beltline when city streets next to homes and destinations are this bad.
