Atlanta Streets Alive’s 2025 season begins this weekend. Hurray!

Josh Green

Fri, 04/25/2025 – 13:51

Heads up, Atlanta: Car-free street party season begins Sunday.

The Atlanta Department of Transportation and Propel ATL have teamed up to launch the beginning of Atlanta Streets Alive’s Spring 2025 season April 27 on the time-tested and fan-favorite Peachtree Street route.

Following its winter hibernation (since mid-November), Streets Alive will start 2025 by reimagining the 2.8 miles of Peachtree Street between the oldest blocks of downtown to Midtown near the High Museum of Art.

More specifically, that’s from Alabama Street to 15th Street.

On May 18, the festivities will shift south of Interstate 20. That southside route is even longer (about three and ½ miles), opening Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard and Georgia Avenue from West End to Grant Park, with Mechanicsville and Summerhill’s commercial district in between.

The route for three Atlanta Streets Alive programs in late 2024 between Gordon-White Park (left) and Grant Park. Propel ATL

Then on June 22, Peachtree will “once again transform into a canvas for movement, play, and connection,” per Propel ATL officials.

Six different events on those routes last year—linking together seven different neighborhoods—drew more than 93,000 attendees. The dates and locations of more open-streets block parties for beyond June will be detailed soon, per organizers.

To recap, the first 2025 Streets Alive dates to be announced are as follows, with each event planned from 2 to 6 p.m.:

Sunday, April 27 – Peachtree Street
Sunday, May 18 – Grant Park to West End
Sunday, June 22 – Peachtree Street

Atlanta Bicycle Coalition (now Propel ATL) originated Streets Alive, inspired by ciclovía events in Bogotá, Colombia and other cities. The Atlanta phenomenon began meagerly one day in 2010 when a stretch of Edgewood Avenue opened to bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and anyone else not driving a car. Over the next decade, Streets Alive staged 29 events and covered some 83 miles of city streets, drawing an estimated 1.7 million people total.

The final pre-hiatus event was held on Peachtree in 2019, before going dormant through pandemic years as logistics for a more frequent Streets Alive were worked out with ATLDOT and other city leaders.

Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Last year, six different Streets Alive events marked a record for a single year, with the previous high mark being four in 2016. Sounds like that title could fall in 2025.

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