An interest — and very frank — column on Atlanta’s dearth of walkable suburbs by the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Dan Reuter. Reuter, the ARC’s land use division chief, says it takes many “villages” to “raise a region.” For a guy who already has a say in the matter, he’s sharply critical of the region, noting that, [...]

Wheego opened reservations for its new all-electric Whip LiFe today, with the Atlanta-based car maker’s CEO offering a hint at how competitive the market for mini-electric cars is about to become. “We are on schedule to be the first company to offer an affordable all-electric car in the U.S.,” Mike McQuary said. “Other auto companies have [...]

Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration is presenting its proposal for a downtown streetcar to City Council this week and hopes to gain approval for the project in time to apply for a $52 million federal grant, Maria Saporta reports. The feds rejected Atlanta’s bid last year for a $300 million for a plan that included a streetcar [...]

Attention transit-happy bloggers and videographers: Now, only the weekend remains for you to compete for fun prizes by singing MARTA’s praises … or posting them … or videotaping them. In preparation for the American Public Transit Association’s “Dump the Pump Day” June 17, MARTA’s soliciting three-minute videos and 300-word blog posts about how great MARTA is [...]

Wheego, the Atlanta-based electric car company, will bring its first full-service road vehicle to market next week, when it begins to accept reservations for the new Wheego Whip LiFe. “I’ll give you a sneak preview,” company spokeswoman Susan Nicholson writes me.  “The reservation form goes live June 14 ($100 refundable deposit) and [...]

MARTA’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year is the first spending plan to take advantage of legislation that gives the transit agency more flexibility on the way it spends sales tax money. But budget, which you can examine and comment upon after 5 p.m. today at Atlanta City Hall and in Decatur’s Maloof [...]

The AJC reported over the weekend that one of the developers planning to buy City Hall East from the city expects the project to have more retail space and fewer condominiums than he originally envisioned. Emory Morsberger, who was the original developer but is now sharing the project with deeper-pocketed Jamestown Properties, notes that the current [...]

Even conservative heavy hitters in the Georgia Legislature are getting fed up with the state Department of Transportation’s failure to produce a balanced transportation system. Maria Saporta reports on what she calls “a pretty amazing resolution … that basically describes the Georgia Department of Transportation as incompetent when it comes to developing anything other than highways, [...]

Atlanta’s one of about 150 cities whose bicycle voyages can now be mapped via Google. Shannon Guymon, product manager for the bicycling option on Google Maps, announced the option was live on the official Google blog earlier this week. The point of mapping especially for cyclists is to highlight routes that are likely to be safer [...]

Fresh off the last year’s raves its work on Manhattan’s High Line linear park on an abandoned elevated railroad, New York’s James Corner Field Operations has been hired to design Atlanta’s Beltline. Beltline officials announced today that James Corner will join with the Atlanta office of Perkins + Will, which happens to employ Beltline visionary Ryan [...]