We recently featured the new ARC-approved Walk. Bike. Thrive! regional bicycle-pedestrian plan. To develop a regional, data-driven framework, the plan includes strategies for prioritizing projects and guiding investments for walking and biking. To evaluate projects in a way that reflects ARC's policy goals, the prioritization tool identifies "regional focus areas" based on desired safety, mobility, economic development, and [...]
To start off this week, we wanted to take a look at the newly released School Climate Ratings- a rating system derived from surveys distributed to all schools in Georgia. The ratings aim to assess the perceived “culture”, character, and quality of school life. Data from the surveys are used to score each school from [...]
Henry County residents have local pride and strong community engagement, but have regional transportation challenges. Highlights of the responses from the 400 Henry County residents surveyed in the 2015 edition of Metro Atlanta Speaks are shown below. Featured questions: How would you rate metro Atlanta as a place to live? How would you rate support services for elderly citizens? Of the [...]
Now we can relive the worst traffic jams of May 2016! The top 10 bottlenecks for the month are shown here, with details about duration, length, and number of occurrences. For the second month in a row, the #1 bottleneck was I-75 N @ Chastain Rd/exit 271. The average maximum length of this bottleneck was 11.82 miles [...]
Taken from this month's Regional Snapshot, this map explores cost-of-living across the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Red and green dots mark the cities with a lower cost- of-living index while blues indicate the highest. As you might have guessed, New York has the highest Cost of Living Index of 227.4- more than double than the [...]
Ever wonder how expensive Atlanta is compared to other cities? We have an answer for you! This month's Regional Snapshot looks at how expensive it is to live in different metropolitan areas by exploring data related to cost-of-living. Here are the key findings, but you can access the full report here: Metro Atlanta’s overall cost-of-living is [...]
Compared to other counties, a higher percentage of Rockdale County residents think public education in the metro region is "excellent," and they are more likely to consider crime the biggest problem for metro Atlanta. Check out what else the 400 surveyed Rockdale County residents had to say in the 2015 edition of Metro Atlanta Speaks. Featured questions: Of the following, [...]
Last week the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) Board approved Walk. Bike. Thrive!, the new regional bicycle-pedestrian plan. The plan introduces a framework for prioritizing regional bike/ped investments and provides tools for local jurisdictions to increase active transportation options. Walk. Bike. Thrive! envisions the completion of community-scale walking and bicycling networks, a regional-scale trail network, and first- and [...]
Most school systems throughout metro Atlanta had their graduation ceremonies over the past couple of weeks as these recent graduates prepare for the next stage in their lives. Many will go to a four-year college, some will go to a technical college and others won't enroll in any post-secondary institution and instead will jump directly into the workforce. [...]
How did the population of metro Atlanta cities change from 2010-2015? Newly released U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates show that the City of Atlanta had the largest increase at 43,622 (a 10.4% increase) and, as expected, also had the largest 2015 population at 463,878. The population in cities can change in three different ways, unlike [...]
