In the past two weeks I’ve read two separate articles referring to the median on Ga. Highway 74 being unsafe because people traveling north can’t make a left into the post office or Waffle House, or make a left coming out of these locations. Are these people idiots? I’ve lived in Peachtree City for five years and can tell you that in a town where you can get from one side of town to the other on a golf cart, there is always another way to get somewhere. The writers of the articles claim the median makes northbound traffic wanting to go the post office/Waffle House to make a U-turn at 74/54. That is crazy. There is an opening to make a left turn onto Clover Reach, which will bring you in behind these places. You can also make a left at Paschall Road and a right on Clovergreen. There is a light at this intersection and much safer than making a U-turn, or cross three lanes of southbound traffic and competing with northbound traffic at the same time while causing a back-up in the post office parking lot. When I first moved here, I was given a golf cart map, which has most cart paths as well as the complete street map of the city. I recommend these writers, as well as anyone else confused by the median on Hwy. 74, get one.

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Hey, Sarah: Wanna buy a real “Bridge To Nowhere”? We’ve got one we’ll sell ya: PTC Council doesn’t want it, DOT doesn’t want it, and we’re tired of waiting, and we’ve learned to do without. Brand-spankin’ new, never been driven on. Can you swing by here and show PTC Council, and DOT, how to move one single document from one desk to another to get final approval? I don’t know what these people would do if they had a REAL problem to solve. Please, Sarah, lend them a helping hand. Yours truly, a PTC resident. P.S.: Watch out for the greedy property owners who own the path rights-of-way to the bridge.

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For those who love the idea of keeping Peachtree City beautiful and the idea of everyone in the city involved in recycling, don’t give up. We can still make a difference without the citywide program. Although a wonderful idea, it did not pass, and therefore I will give you all the info you need to make your own decision. Just please start recycling. We can make a difference one house at a time. Please add recycling to your daily routine even if it is choosing the wonderful free recycling center Peachtree City offers at Kelly Drive. They take cardboard, plastic, newspaper and magazines (PTC, please add a glass and aluminum containers, and we would be set). You can also always recycle at the Waste Management Fayetteville dump off of Manassas Mile, where you can recycle everything, including electronics, glass, newspaper, appliances and cans. Here is how all of the trash providers I called on Nov. 12 add up: CLM, $45 a quarter for trash plus $5 a month for recycling once a month pickup; Allied, $45 a quarter for trash and $25 a quarter for recycling; Robertson/United, $46.23 a quarter for trash plus free once a week recycling pickup with bin provided; and Cardinal, $45 a quarter for trash plus free once a week recycling pickup with a bin provided. Remember to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle because everything we do makes a difference.

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The unique color and extra sediments in Lake Kedron is not from ”buffer violations.” It is from the clear-cutting and development that was done for the new Target Center and now next to World Airways for a new Peachtree City office complex. I’m no scientist and I didn’t spend thousands of dollars in aerial photographs to figure that one out. One day I drove north on Peachtree Parkway. I just happened to look right and left and noticed all of the EXTRA major development we have had this year on the streams that feed into Lake Kedron. Maybe we should dredge Lake Kedron next.

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Peachtree City, congrats on the new supermarket coming to the Line Creek area. Pretty soon you’ll have plastic bags hanging from every tree and bush in the Preserve.

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Regarding SPLOST: It is all well and good that citizens really care about the local school system, and I strongly hope that the board of education uses their money wisely. As a family in Fayette County, we just gave you at least an additional $240 per year for the purchases that we make locally. Our food bill alone is approximately $9,600 a year. For the sake of example, let’s multiply that by 25,000 households. That’s 6,000,000.00. This is an example of why it is bad for the state to have their fingers in control of local schools. They make promises of funding based on benchmarks, mismanage funds with bureaucracy overload, and then cut funding that the schools desperately need. Our tax dollars go to the state and then they decide who gets what. Basically, Fayette County is supporting other schools across the state. Spread the wealth; your taxes will keep going up.

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Listening to the County Commission last [Thursday] night, it sounds like this road project has a real objective: to BYPASS any public comment and environmental regulation. If it has been in the works for 20 years, how come nobody I talked to ever heard of that? This “it has been in the planning for so long, how dare you question us” sounds a lot like the TDK developer road: get it through, get it through, get it through. All the developers are behind it (including Wieland) and judging from Chairman Smith’s anger last night, the Chamber of Commerce is probably pushing him to get it done. There is lot about this project that seems sloppy. How do I count the ways?

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What’s happened to the Catholics? In the last election 54 percent of Catholics voted for the candidate that thinks it is OK to experiment with the stem cells of fertilized eggs and that abortion is an acceptable method of birth control. Obama has indicated he would use federal tax money to fund both. Are these “Catholics” in the wrong pew? Wouldn’t they be more at home in the Episcopal Church?

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I would like for The Citizen to do an investigation on the Fayetteville Police Department. In these hard economic times, many towns and municipalities are suffering from economic woes. This police department is doing their part to make sure the coffers are full. Fayetteville has had this reputation for a long time for being a place to avoid if possible. Stings are being set up all over the city. Just yesterday in a 15-minute period, I saw three of these set up. There are blue lights all over town. Certain groups are targeted: Hispanics, African-Americans, and older citizens. The fines levied by Fayetteville are way out of line with other jurisdictions. Time could be spent better in trying to thwart more serious crimes such as car break-ins and other crimes in the Pavilion area. A group of us are even contemplating asking the I-Team from Fox 5 to get involved.

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I live in a neighborhood where for some reason a couple of neighbors feel they deserve to live there more so than others. As a neighborhood, we get together for social gatherings, wave to each other and are friendly neighbors to each other. It is a wonderful spot to call home that many would envy. But those couple of neighbors need to learn to be neighborly like the rest of us or move to a place where you don’t have neighbors — A private island.

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If you cannot make your mortgage payment this month because you do not have enough income and I come along and pay it for you, will that solve your financial problem? I think not, because next month you will again be unable to pay your mortgage. This is exactly what our government is doing with our tax money: Bailing out industries that are suffering from lack of sufficient income. Why are they suffering from lack of income? Because the American consumer does not have adequate income to buy their products after paying for gasoline, food, health care and utilities, all of which come first no matter what the consequences. If the price of these necessities returned to a reasonable level, the American economy would boom again and there would be no more financial crisis with home foreclosures, bankruptcies and mass layoffs. Of course there would be a lot of corporate executives taking home $100,000 rather than the $200 million many of them are taking home now.