The conditions of the westbound bike lanes on Ponce (directly across the street from Ponce City Market) are flat out negligent.
I understand that the roadwork in Atlanta never ends and there are many roads, bike lanes, and sidewalks around the city that need improvements, but I believe the bike lanes here are in such poor shape that the city is potentially exposing itself to lawsuits.
This area has high bike and scooter traffic, but many riders refuse to use the lanes because of how dangerous they are so they instead end up endangering themselves in the high traffic car lanes or endangering pedestrians on the high traffic sidewalks. This area is directly across the street from Ponce City Market, adjacent to the Midtown Plaza shopping center, near Murder Kroger as well as dozens of other shops and apartments/condos/lofts, and intersects one of the highest trafficked areas of the Beltline. It's also in a valley on the bottom of two steep hills where bike riders can reach pretty high speeds when descending.
There are large gaps, holes, and craters surrounding the sewer grates here, and one set of grates is even aligned in a way that a bicycle tire can go straight through the grates in a dedicated bike lane. It's incredibly unsafe and the city needs to prioritize addressing this before someone is hurt and we are all exposed to that liability. I emailed the district's council member (Kelsea Bond) 7 weeks ago but unfortunately she hasn't responded.