UPDATE May 5, 2025: I lost interest in doing this. Onward!
Good morning, all! Hope you’re enjoying winter bike rides bundled up! Good news — I saw a dandelion yesterday. That means National Bike Month 2025 (May) is not far away.
As publisher here of TravelingAtTheSpeedOfBike.com, I’m creating a calendar and blog post with links to events and resources throughout Metro Atlanta and nationally-accessible for National Bike Month 2025. Above is the one from 2021 (the last one I did — you can see that blog post here with its links to each group’s rides, resources, etc.).
Please email me your National Bike Month information by April 1, if you would like your city or advocacy group’s events or resources to be included. There is no cost, and there is no guarantee it will be included. I do this all as a volunteer. Please forward this to others you think may want to be featured. What a joy for us to be able to take a local action that will help people we love by creating safer cities.
FYI, the City of Dunwoody (A Gold-level Atlanta Regional Commission Green Community, but with a PeopleForBikes city rating of just 16 out of 100) kicked off its planning for National Bike Month 2025 this week. The meeting included the City of Dunwoody’s chief of police, city council members, the city manager and assistant manager, the head of the parks and recreation department, its paid bike/ped coordinator, the Perimeter Connects program manager, and citizen advocates (including me). The City of Dunwoody’s National Bike Month plans currently include:
(1) a family bike ride on Dunwoody’s really beautiful trail system;
(2) a ride with staff and council at Dunwoody City Hall in our Perimeter business district featuring a quick-build protected bike lane inspired by the ones in Dublin, Ireland (see photo below);
(3) a temporary cone-protected bike lane on a major corridor connecting neighborhoods to the city’s “heart” on Mother’s Day Weekend leading to Dunwoody’’s signature Art Festival;
(4) Active participation in/communication of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s upcoming Georgia Rides competition via the LoveToRide.net app (similar to the very fun metro-wide competition each year during Biketober). Anyone can create a team, so this is not dependent on any city’s participation but it would be fun if city-led teams competed against each other. What a great way to also see what other cities are doing to make our shared public spaces more inviting!
Hope to you see you out there traveling at the speed of bike (I use my bike as my primary transportation throughout Metro Atlanta, and beyond). You may also enjoy my latest book, Round America with a Duck, about my 10,000-mile journey via bike, buses, trains and volunteering more than 500 hours across the USA in search of hope. Big thanks to Cathy Cobbs of Rough Draft Atlanta for the article about it recently, which was also published in multiple Reporter newspapers. Hope it inspires others (maybe even you!) to ride more. There is LOTS of good happening throughout Metro Atlanta — AND the USA — to explore!
Trust the journey,
Pattie
Dublin’s quick-build interim protected bike lanes:
Quick test of cone-protected bike lanes around Dunwoody (there have already been many cone-protected lanes for construction, utility vehicles and potholes but none for people):
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