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Allow me to rant, please...I recently returned home to 10th St. after several months in NYC (a very intelligently bicycle-friendly city) to find a new bike lane had usurped a good stretch of the street.  I love my own bicycle, and I love that people are biking the city in ever-increasing numbers. Bike lanes are forward-thinking and indicate progress to be sure.  Leave it to Atlanta to get it wrong here.  I just have to wonder who is responsible for this short-sighted decision. Tenth St. is a rather major thoroughfare. All westbound vehicles are now relegated to one lane from Monroe to Charles Allen.   If even just one is turning onto Chas. Allen, the length of traffic must wait, trapped. And there is never just one needing to make the turn, so several changes of lights are required.
When there is a festival in progress, the street is in gridlock from morning to night. Am I the only person who is aware of this? Is the park not an option for a bike path since it is only, hmmm, four feet away?
I hate to sound negative, but someone please tell me this is a temporary solution? 
The Children's School's bad neighbor policy (policies is more apt**) with regard to pickup (including their aggressively rude traffic officer) already places me in a poor mood when driving home from work (a job I would bike to if it weren't a thirty minute drive already); so I'm not prepared for yet another traffic slam. I'm a 27-year home-owning resident of Midtown, not a newcomer who just wants to complain.
(**Let's not forget that the school has also taken away a huge stretch of residential life, leaving at night a zone of unguarded nothingness and crime for neighbors to contend with.) 
Optimistically yours...

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