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PTC denied light for 74S sports fieldsFri, 09/26/2008 - 3:43pm
By: John Munford
Progress reported on 54W golf cart bridge Peachtree City officials are still trying to convince the Georgia Department of Transportation to allow a traffic light on Ga. Highway 74 south at the city’s baseball and soccer complex. The city’s recent application for a light was denied, but that doesn’t mean officials have lost hope. At last week’s City Council meeting, Mayor Harold Logsdon said he has called for a meeting with DOT arranged by Sen. Ronnie Chance for next month. Logsdon said he intends to take DOT board member Sam Wellborn, who represents the district that includes Peachtree City, to the sports complex to show the light is necessary. The mayor also plans to take Wellborn to three other areas where he feels the DOT’s attention is needed. “It’s like I told the governor when I met with him, dealing with DOT is just absolutely impossible,” Logsdon said. Officials also said last week that the city was making progress on land acquisition for the connections needed to complete the Ga. Highway 54 West golf cart bridge. Two of the three parcels were already well underway and progress was being made on the third, which is owned by Cousins Properties, the owner of The Avenue shopping center, said City Attorney Ted Meeker. Once the acquisition is complete the city’s construction drawings must be approved by the Georgia Department of Transportation before the project can be put out to bid, city officials said. The bridge itself was built as part of the recent highway widening project, but residents have been stymied from using it until the connections can be made. Once complete, the bridge will link the Best Buy parking lot with the Ethan Allen parking lot and carts can use tunnels under the bridge to reach The Avenue shopping center. The project was on hold for well over a year awaiting approval that it met federal air quality standards, an irony since the city’s electric-powered golf carts create no direct emissions. City officials later said one of the problems with the project was when an employee of an engineering firm that consults for DOT had left his position, causing the project to linger further before it got the necessary approval to proceed. login to post comments
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