On Westview Drive: Bike lanes, schmike lanes
The city has abandoned a thousand feet of protected bicycle lanes on Westview Drive, not far from Morehouse College.
In their place? Parking spaces.
Many residents of the area, including church-goers on Westview, said the bike lanes messed up traffic, particularly on Sunday mornings, and they wanted them gone.
One neighbor put it this way:
“If you’re going to come in and plant roses in my front yard, ask me about it first. This is a largely poor community. We ask for things all the time, like better sidewalks, but don’t get them. But then we get this?! In an area where hardly anyone rides bikes?”
Read my full column on the continuing argument over bike lanes.
About the Author
Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990.
