Reduce the six-lane section of Ponce to four lanes. Add bike lanes and center-turn opportunities.

Open an indoor firing range like the one on Zonolite Road. Encourage off-duty cops to offer lessons (for a fee).

There might be long line for those firing range lessons, Stephen.

Yes, what is going on with Peachtree-Pine? Last I heard there was to be another court date in October, but never heard anything. That sad situation needs to be resolved one way or another.

I'm losing hope. We let developers kill off a lot of what made midtown unique- and its not these strip mall mixed used developments that will never have soul. We missed a chance to commit to Complete Streets, instead removing bike lanes we already had (like on Highland Ave) and making these mixed use sidewalks that do not work - a person on a cell phone enjoying a slow meandering walk or a dog walker with a 30 foot leash is in the way of a bicycle trying to go 24mph. I walk on PATH all the time and it's annoying, I'm never really relaxed - am I on "my side" so bikes can get by? Are two bikes approaching from front and rear going to meet exactly where I am walking? Same with traffic calming curbs, it's a narrow gap and a car and a bike do not fit at the same time. Same with the beltline where they opted for one large path and some call it "recreation" and some want to call it "transportation." We fight and wait decades to get the basic things and we still don't execute them correctly and then we want to compare ourselves to Chicago or New York or any of the dozens of other cities making strides in these areas? Even Charlotte has Complete Streets. Chicago is building 30 miles of dedicated bike lanes this year. No one hates Phoenix more than me but they have light rail and bike paths. I check the mail and grocery shop with a loaded .40 cal., but, that does not sad me out like the lack of vision combined with weak execution we have exhibited since the early 90s. Peep this -> :(

Pave PEACHTREE STREET in Midtown! Pave em ALL

V.G. - It was my understanding that the trial was pushed to 2013, but I will look into this for a current update on where things stand.

Raise the taxes on empty lots and surface parking lots on Peachtree st to encourage their development or use as temporay public green space.

The time for wishlists for Midtown is over. It will get slightly denser, but will be littered with parking lots/structures that kill any meaningful potential of real development. Real improvements in transportation and traffic reduction have been bypassed for pretty projects (Edgewood streetcar and Beltline) that will have no beneficial impact of this city. The streetcar is a mini-version of Detroit's people mover (which doesn't move any people), and the Beltline adds trails and green space to areas that don't need them, aren't developed enough to keep them safe, and in the process diverts attention, effort, and capital from other areas that need it. What Midtown (and Atlanta) needs are people that understand the machinations of a city, not transplants from small towns that go gaga over whatever project and photo op city officials and careless developers put forth.

Take a page from Curitiba or Bogota and institute more low-cost, flexible alternatives to driving for intra-neighborhood and cross-town trips. Encourage open-source MARTA API app development, institute express MARTA bus service for commuters down major thoroughfares, foster innovative technology firms & startups to agglomerate in areas that already have a housing supply and infrastructure in place. Optimize traffic flow and create safer crosswalks for both pedestrians and bicyclists. Allow flexible/pop-up shops to inhabit current forclosed commercial properties. End Euclidean zoning and either fund or develop PPPs to carry out future infrastructure financing to foster transect-based zoning.

Please make the intersections of Monroe and 8th St and Monroe and Virginia more pedestrian friendly. How you ever try to reach Woody's or Trader Joe's on foot? It is very dangerous.

Parking lots/empty lots are a problem, but as the economy improves these will be built on. I think some of the challenges are to limit visibility of these huge parking garages (Viewpoint), adding bike paths, sidewalks, and more greenery/trees for shade and attractiveness. Since parks and recreation are at the fundamental core of a good city, the beltline is a huge success already, and should continue to improve along with Piedmint Park imrovements and Freedom Park/Old 4th Ward Park. These parks and the beltline are now beginning to connect the intown neighborhoods in a fantastic way by increasing movement of people, increased recreation, decreasing traffic already, and improved health.

Development that has some architectural integrity - buildings that give Midtown a sense of place. Just when Buckhead is figuring out it needs more greenspace and character, Midtown developers are building ugly, soulless buildings punctuated by infinitely worse parking decks.

Welcome to Cafe Intermezzo, new restaurants at 10th & Piedmont and the others. As Midtown fan said, fix the intersections at Monroe & 10th (in progress, don't mess it up!) and Monroe & 8th. MARTA is now publishing live real-time data on bus locations, but none of the apps have integrated it yet and you can't bookmark your line from their website :(

Get the Eastside trail adjacent to Piedmont Park paved up to Ansley. Do something with the vacant lot on 10th street near Juniper. Stop putting in restaurants that are unaffordable (thankfully we still have Joe's on Juniper and Jason's Deli)

Can anything be done about those high tension power lines alone Monroe? I love my electricity, but they are U-G-L-Y.

I agree with bob. Lets bury those power lines!

Synchronize traffic lights!!!

Line up the streets.

Remove old elevated power lines.

Broaden the sidewalk.

Decorative pedestrian lighting along Midtown's streets (to supplement the sparsely placed uber-high street lights that only line one side of each street).

Doggie Depots on the Beltline (or trashbins).

Improve safety, traffic, parking, cleanup, and festival access planning for all festivals and large events/races in Midtown. Add tons of bike racks and bike lanes.

More collaboration/respect for NPU recommendations.

Far off future, but I would like to see plans for the North-South Streetcar line changed. Currently that plan calls for the line to run exclusively on Peachtree street. If streetcar presence is supposed to boost business along the line I suggest the car heads North on Peachtree and South on West Peachtree. This would encourage business on both roads and the streets in-between. (Not to mention that the streetcar eating up 2 lanes on Peachtree seems like a traffic nightmare to me).

Convert 11th street into a one-way, east bound, between Juniper and Piedmont. It currently is too narrow for a two-way; make it similar to 13th street. Coming from the OC/CA, I find these telephone poles need to go underground; makes the city look very 1913 verses 2013.

Thanks for these solid Midtown improvement ideas. I'm compiling a list and we'll make every effort to look into these further. Keep 'em coming ...

I agree with Dan Armstrong, pave the streets! They're terrible in so many parts of Midtown. And, how about preventing big tractor trailer rigs from using 10th Street? I know its a route to the connector, but I'm on 10th every day and most that I see are just going straight through. The part of 10th between Atlantic Ave and Northside Drive is especially bad, and I believe the big rigs contribute to that. They are also a hazard to pedestrians on the sidewalk of the south side of 10th when walking east to the Midtown Marta station. And one more thing...stop with the steel plates!!!

The badly underutilized streetscape along Ponce needs to transform to a more urban streets with lots of city comforts... Like the transformations depicted at http://urban-advantage.com/_assets/slideShow_images_page/T390_Images.html

My favorite example of what Ponce needs to become: http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/downtown.asp - be sure to click on "Next Photo" to see transformation.

Convert Spring and W Peach to one way.

Great idea above about taxing empty lots.

Streetcar where is always should have been, Westside to 10th/Monroe.

More green space. Piedmont Park obscures the fact that Midtown has almost no green space outside of the park.

^ I meant convert to 2 way

Convert Peachtree to one-way. Three southbound lanes Pershing Point to Five Points, plus streetcar, bike lanes, wider sidewalks. Northbound traffic moves to a williams, West Peachtree, and Piedmont.

The Children's school should become a better neighbor or go away

I'd love to see rowboats (a la Central Park) on Clara Meer.

Pave the streets! It's like driving the streets of Baghdad. Why does every utility need to spray paint the sidewalks, tear up the streets and throw down steel plates the minute they have been freshly repaired or paved?
Bury the power lines...worth it even if it costs $1 million per mile. They are a huge eyesore. (Yeah, yeah...that means spray paint, tearing up streets and steel plates, but they're doing that anyway).
I also agree with the comments regarding intersections of Monroe at 8th and 10th, but one minor thing really irritates me...those stupid trees planted in the sidewalk on the Grady High School side of 10th Street near Monroe. The sidewalk is way too narrow as it is without eating up half the width with poorly pruned crepe myrtles. I love trees. I want more of them, but think before you plant.

The panhandlers are out of control. Midtown has a litter problem also.

Tear down any building that has any bit of historic and architectural value. Oh wait ... your doing that just fine.

It seems Atlanta hates the past.

Convert the Civic Center into a proper Natural History Museum (The Fernbank is a joke with 3 dinosaurs and a martini lounge). The Civic Center is a beautiful building with a lot of potential!

Encourage more local retail establishments and create incentives (either lease or payroll tax) for startups/small businesses to occupy underutilized space that has come line and sat dormant since construction.

People keep talking about synchronizing the streetlights. Well that's already being done, but to also note that also includes coordinating the cross streets to better improve the east-west flow as well. Midtown's fairly cut off from the Westside (which arguably is a good part of the larger Midtown neighborhood as well).

Strengthening transit connections and options east-west would go a long way in helping bring some pedestrian-oriented developments as well.

West Peachtree and Spring street should be converted to 2-way streets and finally making those into complete streets as well the entire route. As of now they are mere highway/interstate ramps with speeding cars and little pedestrian-oriented development can survive along these routes.

And there still IS quite a need for some centralized green space in the Westside. I know that with the potential removal of Tech Parkway could free up some real estate for a right-sized park for the West Midtown neighborhood.

Bike lanes on 10th street, which is under consideration! See "10th Street Two-Way Cycle Track"

http://midtown.patch.com/articles/new-midtown-sidewalk-and-bicycle-project-planned-on-juniper