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Months of hard work finally paid off when Joe Seconder and other cyclists found out that the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) would be including bike lanes on a new bridge. Plans for the bridge which originally excluded bike lanes were developed before the GDOT adopted a Complete Streets policy. Seconder and others made the case for bike lanes and ultimately convinced the state transportation department to include these lanes on the bridge. With the addition of bike lanes bikers of all ages and backgrounds will now have an alternative means of transportation from one area of the city to another.
This Georgia Bikes blog recounts the story of how bike advocates pushed for the development of a Complete Streets Policy in Georgia. Interestingly, some officials working with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) were under the impression that a Complete Streets Policy was already in place. It took the efforts of bike advocates to create awareness that such a policy was non-existent. Soon GDOT created a task force to create a Complete Streets Policy and on September 20, 2012 the policy was enacted.
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