Freedom Parkway, Urban parkway in Old Fourth Ward, Atlanta, United States.
Freedom Parkway is a road in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta that connects downtown to the Carter Center, running through a large green corridor lined with trees and landscaped areas. The road shares space with paved paths for pedestrians and cyclists alongside the vehicle lanes.
In the 1960s, hundreds of homes were demolished to make way for a planned highway before residents organized and fought to stop further construction over the following decades. The land that was spared eventually became the green corridor seen today.
Along the parkway, visitors come across public artworks honoring civil rights figures placed at different points on the path. The route is used daily by joggers, families, and cyclists who treat it as a natural passage through their neighborhood.
The parkway can be entered from several points along its length and connects easily to PATH Foundation trails that cross other parts of the city. Morning and evening hours tend to be the calmest times to walk or cycle through.
The land running through this corridor was originally reserved for an Interstate highway that was never built, making it one of the few cases in the country where a federally planned road was stopped entirely by local opposition. The route that was never paved became the green path that exists today.
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