With the weather warming up in Atlanta, that means one thing: BeltLine mania’s parade of questionable decisions is right around the corner!
The planned 22-mile loop—considered one of the most ambitious, mobility-enhancing urban redevelopments in American history—is building new trail sections all over town right now, from the Westside to the southern U and around to the fringes of Buckhead. Other segments have come into their own as neighborhoods embraced them—and grew up around them.
None of that means people on the BeltLine have learned how to act.
With the BeltLine connecting more neighborhoods than ever, and new people pouring into the ATL at a rapid clip, it’s time for a primer on how to behave—and what not to do. The BeltLine is shaping up to be Atlanta’s version of a boardwalk and a vital transportation corridor, minus the cars. That’s if the knuckleheads don’t ruin it first.
22 unwritten (until now) Atlanta BeltLine rules to live by:
1. If you’re pedaling so fast that people are scoffing or harboring their children from you, it’s not that they’re weak. It’s your Armstrong complex flaring up again. Slow down.
2. When you tell someone to meet you at the BeltLine, down by the brewery, you have to be way more specific.
3. If it’s after 3 p.m. on a weekend, and you see people wearing even one item of sorority/fraternity apparel, it’s safe to assume their BAC is LOL AF. Allow three feet of extra distance.
4. Apply the third rule to moms in groups of three or more without their children. At all times.
Adaptive-reuse projects meld with new construction along the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail. Shutterstock
5. Kid-leashes on the BeltLine: Nobody will judge you.
6. E-scooter riders who are two-deep or obviously in elementary school: Everybody’s judging you.
7. Doing a wheelie for more than 20 feet on the BeltLine doesn’t make you cool—it makes you a wobbly missile, only dumber.
8. No matter…
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