Friday, June 22, 2001
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Friday, June 22, 2001 |
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Resident wants traffic slowed in Senoia By JOHN
THOMPSON
Craig Bowen wants Senoia's leaders to do something about the traffic on Pylant Street. Bowen lives on the busy street and told the City Council Monday night that the street is now being used as a shortcut for people from Turin and destinations west of town as a shortcut to Rockaway Road. The concerned resident teaches school and said every morning when he gets ready to back out of his driveway, cars go whizzing by at speeds exceeding the speed limit by up to 25 miles an hour. "If it was just 10 miles an hour, it wouldn't be so bad," he said. Bowen is concerned about the number of children and elderly residents who live on the street and suggested the city build a speed bump to slow drivers down. But City Attorney Drew Whalen said speed bumps are not approved by the state Department of Transportation as speed-reducing devices. If the city were to build the bump, it would not be able to get any state funding for repaving the street. Mayor Joan Trammell agreed that something needs to be done about speeding in the city, especially on streets such as Pylant and Standing Rock Road that commuters use as cut-through roads on their way to work in Peachtree City or Atlanta. She asked Police Chief Julian Campbell to start more aggressively monitoring the situation and asked whalen to see which devices the state would allow to be used to slow the traffic. The city will discuss the issue again at its Aug. 6 meeting.
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