Although Atlanta ’ s lack of bike lanes may deter many residents from cycling, the city ’ s transportation plan calls for the construction of 226 miles of bike lanes by 2020, with the BeltLine helping to achieve this goal.

A 2001 study found that Atlanta ’ s heavy tree cover declined from 48 % in 1974 to 38 % in 1996.

However, the problem is being addressed by community organizations and city government: Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization founded in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75, 000 shade trees in the city, while Atlanta ’ s government has awarded $ 130, 000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees.

Developed in the early 1970s as one of Atlanta ’ s first mixed-use developments ; located at I-85 and North Druid Hills Road.

Commercial air service is provided by the South Bend Regional Airport, with flights to larger hubs such as Atlanta, Chicago O ’ Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Orlando, and St. Petersburg-Clearwater.

When grading was done for the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway in 1870 and a small depot was built in the community, it was given the name " Wright ’ s Station ", because the nearest resident was William Wright.

It wasn ’ t until 1873 that the Atlanta and Richmond Railroad laid a line through the town.

" I ’ m Keeping .../ Atlanta " – Pretty Things: SSK 19403 ( UK, June 1975 )

The phoenix has long been the symbol of Atlanta ’ s rebirth after its devastation in the American Civil War.

Reagon is Professor Emerita of History at American University in Washington, D. C., and holds the title of Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution ’ s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and was the 2002 – 04 Cosby Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia.

After attending A & M he moved to Atlanta and became a fan of WRNG-AM, Atlanta ’ s first talk radio station.

While actively involved in the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Abernathy completed his Master ’ s Degree in Sociology at Atlanta University.

Mabus has been awarded the U. S. Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the U. S. Army ’ s Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Martin Luther King Social Responsibility Award from the King Center in Atlanta, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award, the King Abdul Aziz Award from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Mississippi Association of Educators ’ Friend of Education Award.

In 2007, The New York Times stated that " Classical music criticism, a high-minded endeavor that has been around at least as long as newspapers ... has taken a series of hits in recent months ", because " ritics ’ jobs have been eliminated, downgraded or redefined at newspapers in Atlanta, Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country and at New York magazine, where Peter G. Davis, one of the most respected voices of the craft, said he had been forced out after 26 years ".

In 1999, Spyder moved to Atlanta, and began freelance engineering at Dallas Austin ’ s DARP Studios, and Bobby Brown ’ s Boss Recording, bringing with him some of his New York and northeast clientele, including Jam-Master Jay protégé Derrick Stanfield-Kivoi.

Along with Du Bois, Trotter was a charter member of the Niagara Movement in 1905, an organization of African Americans who renounced the ideas set forth in Booker T. Washington ’ s " Atlanta Compromise " speech of 1895.

* While playing the Atlanta Falcons on January 9, 1999, Owens caught a long touchdown pass and proceeded to mimic the " dirty bird ", the Falcons ’ signature touchdown dance with Owens performing a slashing of the throat gesture at the end of the dance.

Habitat's founder, Millard Fuller, and his wife were dismissed by the Habitat board of directors on January 31, 2005, citing “ a pattern of ongoing public comments and communications by the Fullers that have been divisive and disruptive to the organization ’ s work ” after Fuller was accused by a former female employee of " suggestive comments and inappropriate touching " during a ride to the Atlanta airport in 2003.

During World War II, Camp Atlanta was established next to the town as an Allied prisoner-of-war camp for German P. O. W. s.

In 2004, Walter Rodney ` s widow, Patricia, and his children donated his papers to the Robert L. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center.

Merle Black, an expert on the region ’ s politics at Emory University in Atlanta, said the Republican Party went too far in appealing to the South, alienating voters elsewhere.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned their convictions in 2005, citing the " prejudices " of Miami ’ s anti-Castro Cubans, but the full court later reversed the five's bid for a new trial and reinstated the original convictions.

The “ father of the Peachtree ” headed it the first six years before turning it over to the Atlanta Track Club by using volunteers from Georgia State ’ s fraternities and sororities.

The panther holds the symbol of education, with the quill in red to symbolize the fire in Atlanta ’ s city emblem.

Turk now lives with his wife, two children, multiple cats and peach tree in Atlanta, GA.

The Rich's Great Tree, now the Macy's Great Tree ( and briefly the The Great Tree at Macy's ), is a large tall cut pine Christmas tree that has been an Atlanta tradition since 1948.

Beginning that year, the Rich's department store put a large pine tree atop its flagship downtown Atlanta store, lighting it on Thanksgiving night.

With the tree on the roof of the complex, combined with its tall height, the Great Tree could be seen for tens of miles outside the downtown district of Atlanta.

It was visible for decades, until Rich's downtown store closed in mid-1991 and the tree was moved to a smaller, less-imposing spot in Underground Atlanta.

As the tree became an Atlanta tradition, more was added to the display to create an attraction in its own right.

After years of contraction, Federated closed Rich's main downtown store in the 1990s and moved the tree to nearby Underground Atlanta.

For the conclusion of the ceremony, all of the bridge choirs ( of both musical eras ) were lighted on every floor, and leading towards the soloist's highest note in " O Holy Night ", at which point the lights on the great tree burst alive to shine on downtown Atlanta.

The tree also snapped in 1974, the year before Federated bought Rich's from the Rich family, and some native Atlantans suspected that both times were a sort of " karma " regarding the reduction and then complete loss of the store, an Atlanta institution since 1867.

* 1981-There was coverage of the dolls ' popularity in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Atlanta Weekly.

Harry Christopher " Chip " Caray III ( born 1965 ) is a television broadcaster for Fox Sports South and SportSouth's coverage of the Atlanta Braves baseball and Southeastern Conference basketball, and is an occasional radio broadcaster and co-host of the pre-game and post-game shows on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network.

While the station was an initial moderate success among the young adult audience in the region ( especially inner-city Atlanta ), WHTA suffered a setback with its signal coverage.

This coverage increase was designed to greatly improve the radio station's coverage to encompass more of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

In fall 2004, the station agreed to partner with ISP Sports to simulcast network coverage of selected Georgia Tech football and men's basketball games to augment WQXI's diminished AM nighttime coverage in metro Atlanta.

To facilitate a move-in to add metro Atlanta coverage, Lite Rock WPEZ FM (" Z108 ") in Macon moved its format from 100, 000 watts ERP at 107. 9 to an existing frequency at 93. 7 in Jeffersonville.

The station signed on with Atlanta coverage as WEGF " 107. 9 the End " with a modern rock format.

It also significantly boosted the station's signal to a full 5 million watts, giving it a coverage area comparable to the other major Atlanta stations.

In 1996, Globo, after a year of losses, began to rise again as the nation's number one, aided by brand new programs and its coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, coupled with changes in the newsrooms.

This expansion also added several new routes to the HERO coverage area to include the southern section of Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah.

In 1992, the Atlanta Braves game coverage moved to rival WGST until 1994.

In 1995, the Braves coverage returned to WSB, the year the Braves won their only Atlanta World Series title to date.

That same year the Atlanta Hawks game coverage was also picked up by the station.

During the Atlanta tornado outbreak in March 2008, CNN / US and CNNI simulcasted coverage after Anderson Cooper 360 ° ended.

Because 105. 7 is north of Atlanta, 96. 7 gave some coverage to the south.

Despite the sudden shift to Rhythmic Top 40 and primary signal coverage into Atlanta, there is some criticism over whether WWVA can actually replace WBTS, or fill the void for that matter, in terms of music, personalities, area promotion, and signal presence.

WNGC's signal can be heard in Downtown Atlanta, Greenville, South Carolina and in parts of Asheville, North Carolina, but the main coverage area is northeast Georgia and the Athens metro area ( where the studios are located ).

Its in-depth coverage of event such as the 1987 rebellion at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary has received widespread acclaim.

Broadcasting from the Bank of America Plaza in midtown Atlanta, its city of license at the time was Fayetteville, Georgia, a significant distance beyond its coverage area.

In 1997, he won an Emmy for anchoring CNN coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta.