Earlier this month, the city of Atlanta opened a two-way cycle track along a portion of 10th Street near Piedmont Park, that created a dedicated and separated route for safe bike travel between Monroe Drive and Charles Allen Drive in Midtown.

In doing so, one of the two westbound lanes that motorists utilized on 10th was eliminated and that has some folks scratching their heads. As one Patch user commented recently at the site, "Leave it to Atlanta to get it wrong here. I just have to wonder who is responsible for this shortsighted decision."

The issue is that with the intersection of Charles Allen and 10th for westbound motorists reduced to a single lane, whenever a vehicle needs to turn left onto Charles Allen, traffic begins to back up extensively as far back as Monroe. Sometimes during peak travel times in the day, it takes several traffic signal cycles for some motorists to get through the intersection.