Wednesday, August 14, 2002
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002 |
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Angry traffic honkers disturb once-peaceful neighborhood Thirty-four years ago this coming October, my family and I became residents of our dearly beloved Peachtree City. We had three boys, and the years here had been blessed. I always found myself bragging on the town where we lived with kind, friendly people, great schools and a top-notch police force. I truly felt God had a hand in our finding and belonging to such a special community. Most families could share in the joy of belonging to groups of people who were caring, friendly and loving. It happened unbeknown to our street of Golfview that all of the development of Kedron would be routed down our hometown street. It was quite a constant entourage and sometimes dangerous. Our neighbor across the street had to move his mailbox to the other end of his lot so he wouldn't have to replace it over and over as he had been doing for years. Also, the telephone company made frequent visits to replace the equipment because of a car not quite making the turn and ending up in the yard, a lot of times wiping out the lower branches of the magnolia. One teenager had to have medical care after landing in our next-door neighbor's yard. Drivers broke all kinds of laws which finally caused the city to install more serious [traffic-calming] equipment. Talk about the friendly, churchgoing people. Now we have people so angry they blow their horns down the street. I wonder how they might have felt after living in Peachtree City for 34 years, to experience the same menace on their street. We had a nice, peaceful atmosphere until the street was made a thoroughfare with double lines and everything. Instead of making it worse still for us, [we are] trying to understand why someone on the Engineering Department made the decision to make it more convenient for the new kids on the block and route them down our quiet street. Mrs. W.H. Joyner Peachtree City
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