Atlanta Streets Alive

Ciclovía is Spanish for a temporary closing of the street to automobiles for use by people participating in recreational activity.

People can walk, bike, roller-skate, jog, skip and roll down 3 to 5 miles of major thoroughfares that have been closed to cars throughout Atlanta three or four times a summer.

Throughout the route there are activities and examples of tactical urbanism inspired to help citizens envision shared streets.

It started small and grew in the 1990s under the mayor and the parks director, brothers Enrique and Guillermo Peñalosa.

On Sundays and holidays, the main streets of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, and other major cities are blocked off for the event to become Carfree.