Peachtree City doesn't like having to pay for something they don't want and will make their life worse!!!!! Simple enough ?

Yes, Mr. Concerned Citizen, if all you know is all you wrote, you are out of the loop for sure.

Let me admit, I'm bias on the issue of TDK. I've been in favor of it since the get-go. I feed and shelter my family as well as donate to charitable causes by making a living dealing in real estate development. I don't do a lot in Fayette County, but if an opportunity arose, I would certainly look at East Coweta. So you now have full disclosure.

I believe the major problems with the TDK issue are Harold Logsdon, Jim Pace and Bob Lenox. Those three individuals have consistently lied to the general public about the true purpose of the road since they have been involved.

Whenever you purposefully mislead people, especially if you are in a leadership position, there will eventually be a resounding crash. We are in the crash stage now.

Had our leaders taken an honest approach and told us the truth about the road, we could be having a civil discussion on how to develop our little corner of the world the best way possible. We might of had a chance to land a win-win situation with Coweta County.

There is no doubt that Steve Brown was right on TDK in terms of the impact. I don't think there is any doubt he was right on his I-85 interchange position either.

Most of the people in Peachtree City let a bunch of egocentric losers take over the discussion, so the prevailing message was the lie of TDK saving our city. In reality, we would have been a lot better off if the developers had joined with Steve Brown and said, yes, there is a negative impact associated with the road expansion, so how can we make things better?

I worked on a very large development in Canton where we worked with the local officials and citizens for almost a year to address their concerns and make them feel comfortable with the project. We ended up making some considerable changes so that everyone would be happy.

Jim Pace, Bob Lenox and later Harold Logsdon pointed in the air and yelled "look over there" while they tried to sneak an elephant behind our backs. What this does is make the development industry look like a bunch of shysters. Harold Logsdon has stretched the truth so much in one year that I think he has lost all his credibility. You won't find many people satisified with the government walking around Peachtree City these days. The police have no respect for his lack of leadership either as announced in the newspaper.

The situation now is the developers and the elected officials in Coweta County won't have anything to do with Peachtree City. They are unwilling to negotiate anything because they think the deal is in the bag. They want to ram about 85,000 cars down Peachtree City's throat.

On the other hand, the traffic numbers are real bad and road infrastructure problems are on the horizon in Peachtree City. They also have a bad taste in their mouth from being lied to for three or four years.

Can things be resolved? Let's just say your guess is as good as mine. Steve Brown knew what he was talkng about and he is as vicious as a pitbull. The good ole boys were just too arrogant to work with him and now look at the mess we've got. There is just not a lot of confidence in Harold Logsdon as a statesman where Steve Brown may have been able to get that job done.

There is little more to know than you have enumerated. A road is needed out of a whole new city across TDK, and Coweta county nor the state will build one in Coweta county. At one time we (PTC) thought we needed the road for people to get to Coweta county from Fayette county, and of course back---thus avoiding the 54/74 intersection.
That was not true of course since all that was needed was a four lane road and bridges from 74 to Newnan. The only thing done wrong there was not bridging over 74 with 54 instead of creating the horror of that intersection now.
The cities being built in Coweta need a road of four lanes through Coweta county to I-85, not shuttled into Fayette. It is inexcusable to destroy PTC traffic with Coweta traffic, especially with our money.
Now, can you guess why developers wouild prefer to develop near PTC, or through Coweta county?