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  • Elizabeth Florio

    Digital Media Director

    Since joining Atlanta magazine in 2006, Florio has served as assistant and associate editor and currently serves as digital media director, overseeing day-to-day operations of the magazine's website and its ancillary digital products. She is a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University.

Modal Citizen: Kyle Azevedo of ViaCycle

Our (inaugural) monthly chat with a champion of transit, mobility, connectivity, and good urbanism

Posted on 5/14/2013 1:46:00 PM by Elizabeth Florio
This post marks the first in a series of spotlights on local transportation rock stars. May is National Bike Month, so I spoke with **Kyle Azevedo**, 26, who along with a group of engineering grad students developed the world’s first GPS-enabled, stationless bike-share system. Call them "smart bikes" for short. Read More

Gushing over "Gatsby"

You don't forget an encounter with a rare first edition

Posted on 4/26/2013 1:52:00 PM by Elizabeth Florio
The New York Times ran a story yesterday on the DiCaprio-emblazoned paperback edition of "The Great Gatsby" and how it’s offended the sensibilities of some booksellers. The article recalled to my mind a first edition of the book, complete with iconic dust jacket, I encountered four years ago while working on a short profile of Buckhead’s Grey Parrot Gallery. Read More

Riding to work with MARTA's CEO

The city's commuter in chief

Posted on 4/8/2013 8:00:00 AM by Elizabeth Florio
Standing on the platform of the Dunwoody station one late January morning, Keith Parker looks every bit the high-ranking executive—camel overcoat, dapper gray suit, trim goatee—except for one small detail: a broken-in leather briefcase that appears to have seen the floors of a few train cars. Read More

MARTA says it won't ask for state money until "house is in order"

The transit authority releases 5-year business plan

Posted on 1/18/2013 8:19:00 PM by Elizabeth Florio
On Friday afternoon, MARTA unveiled a draft of a five-year plan for how the transit authority can cope with a $30 million operating deficit. Authored by auditing firm KPMG, the "transformation road map" provides guidelines for implementing measures recommended in an audit last year. These include restructuring employee benefits and outsourcing certain business functions—savings that could amount to more than $100 million over five years. Read More

The BeltLine acquires key property

plus other Eastside Trail updates

Posted on 1/9/2013 9:38:00 AM by Elizabeth Florio
The Atlanta BeltLine punctuated another year of progress by acquiring the missing link between its popular Eastside Trail and its most visible landmark, Historic Fourth Ward Park. On the last day of 2012, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. purchased a 0.76-acre parcel adjacent to the Masquerade from the Trust for Public Land for a cool $1.3 million. (The Trust buys up strategic pieces of land along the BeltLine and holds them until ABI can come up with the funds. Unfortunately, they bought this one in 2005 at the top of the market.) Read More

5/19+ Gogo: Nature Transformed
5/19+ The Melion-Clum Collection of Modern Southwestern Pottery
5/19+ Georgia Renaissance Festival
5/19+ Lady Lay
5/19+ Concerts on the Square and Blue Sky Concerts

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