Hey durkie, it was pretty cool to open the link and see the route was entered into our site :) I appreciated the photos, hopefully I see a logged ride uploaded for this one day!
Only tangentially related, but I've been living in different parts of the metro Atlanta area for over 20 years and had never heard of most of the areas of town that the article references. I guess people who were born here may be more familiar with those areas.
Funny. My grandparents moved into one of those neighborhoods (Peoplestown) ~1920. I remember eating figs and pecans from the trees they planted and nurtured.
It’s amazing when you walk those streets — abandoned train tracks, memorials to Black churches burned during the Jim
Crow era, artwork long abandoned. For all it’s lack of design at least the city still has immense green space.
It might be that he cycles and has more time to notice the areas? I know from my own cycling I'll often chose routes that Ive not been before just to see whats there?
This is really great. I biked every street in the city of St. Louis, but I definitely didn't optimize. For anybody interested, there is a Strava group for people who have done this or who are doing this in their own cities:
@durkie, do you know of any organizations similar to concrete jungle in other areas? I'd love to participate in something similar. But I live in New England.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 65.1 ms ] threadIt "absolutely" solve the network, so at the moment couldn't solve a network even remotely that big, but it's a fun little project.
https://pages.rapha.cc/feature/the-ride-of-a-thousand-cols
It’s amazing when you walk those streets — abandoned train tracks, memorials to Black churches burned during the Jim Crow era, artwork long abandoned. For all it’s lack of design at least the city still has immense green space.
Not really. Spent first 23 years of life there. The whole car culture killed my ability to serendipitously encounter many of these various areas.
Since I have lived exclusively ITP, I would be fairly lost on the details of OTP neighborhoods.
https://www.strava.com/clubs/ride-every-road
We also have a fledgling subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rideeveryroad/