Raw States
Atlanta Streets Alive
Atlanta, GA · Quirky
- When
- September 27, 2026
- Where
- Woodruff Park / Peachtree Street · Atlanta · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Atlanta Streets Alive is the city's open-streets program, closing a downtown or intown corridor to car traffic several times a year for walking, biking, and street life. It is organized by the transportation nonprofit Propel ATL with the city's Department of Transportation. The next 2026 edition runs along Peachtree Street, with further editions later in the fall on other routes.
The history within reach
- Atlanta Streets Alivesame spot
Atlanta Streets Alive is the city's open-streets program, closing a downtown or intown corridor to car traffic several times a year for walking, biking, and street life.
- Terminus becomes Atlanta0.1 mi
Founded as the end of a state railroad line and called simply Terminus, then Marthasville, then Atlanta in 1845.
- Atlanta race massacre0.1 mi
Newspapers ran unfounded reports of assaults by Black men during a governor's race fought on disenfranchisement.
Three hundred thousand people lined the route and the governor declared a state holiday.
- Atlanta student sit-ins0.2 mi
Students from the Atlanta University Center published An Appeal for Human Rights in the newspapers, then sat in at downtown lunch counters.