And just how many of you plan on being at the meeting?

The last time this issue came before the city council all six of you or six other citizens bothered to show up.

The reason this council can get away with most of their stunts is because you good citizens read about what happened, after the fact, at the last meeting instead of being there in their faces when they pull this crap.

If you want to get something changed or stopped, show up, stand up and say something. It's your right.

Most emails to this council are printed and hung in the restroom just in-case the TP runs out.

If you think the three stooges really care about what this paper publishes, then you're the problem.

Peachtree City is a victim of its own success.

Hilton Head used to be a small, quiet, relaxing island resort community before it got really popular. Now it's a congested and polluted patch of sand in the Atlantic.

Peachtree City has seen its golden years. It can never go back to the way it used to be (or even planned to be). The best we can do is try to halt all future construction. Sadly, many cities rely on new business and residential permits to keep their budget afloat. PTC doesn't need new growth to survive due to our profitable industrial parks.

People want new golf cart paths and bridges. People want more parks, pools, ice rinks (well, some do), etc... Maybe if we stop asking for more perks, then the city can stop justifying the need to build more crap to clutter our city.

Sorry for my rant, I just had to throw in my two cents.

Just do as I (and many others living off MacDuff have) and simply make an effort to shop/eat/spend money elsewhere. When my 2.8 mile commute began taking 20-40 minutes, I stopped patronizing the strip malls that caused that.

Logsdon, Plunkett and Boone:

Is there some underground movement of citizens who support this developer and his efforts to install a light on 54? Maybe there is another website similar to this one where people are praise the merits of "Big Box" retailers and traffic lights. I checked www.theanti-citizen.com and that is not it. If someone runs across a site like that, please post a link.

If this is not the case, the question then becomes, WHO DO YOU SERVE? It is obvious that this new traffic light will make a bad traffic situation worse. It seems pretty clear that no one wants the additional light. For that matter, I think a lot of people could care less if the site is developed at all. What is your motivation for supporting this?

They'll just construct the East-West Fayette Bypass and solve this!

Once again, the citizens scream no, but once again those who are destroying PTC will win. I was on MacDuff Parkway Saturday, called someone to tell them I was on my way. Twelve minutes later (I timed it) I was just getting to 54/74. I could have walked 5 times faster. When you live in this area, it is obvious that quality of life for citizens isn't important, as the traffic is at almost total gridlock during certain times of the day. I can't get home without road stress. Another thing that hasn't even been mentioned (or thought of)...there is another shopping mecca right across from MacDuff that is almost complete. When construction workers come from that center now trying to get onto 54, it's almost impossible to come from MacDuff and turn left - no arrow and the light stays green for only about 3 cars, which doesn't even work when there's a line from Coweta trying to get through the light the other way. That will get much worse if the center ever opens and shoppers actually can get to it.

It keeps feeling like the PTC government is just against us all. What'll happen when us taxpayers get fed up and move on? I don't think it'll take five or ten years for citizens to grumble - we're doing it now- and have been for a couple of years. Who cares - let us eat cake or exhaust fumes.

Incredible, preposterous, horrible, terrible, riciculous, nonsensical.

....how far politicians will go to get their way. It matters not that the necessary 1000 feet exists(Ga DOT specification) between traffic lights, it matters only that a certain developer who has methodically pulled the puppet strings on our Mayor to get each and every consideration imaginable.

Voters loudly proclaimed that they did not want another big box, but not only did we give the citizens 150,000 square feet, we increased it to 175,000 and sold city streets in doing so. This is sheer arrogance at its worst, for who knows best about our city, surely it is not the citizenry.

If I were in Mr McMurrain's shoes, I would pull yet another string and ask my pal Harold to have the citizens of Peachtree City finance the project. This whole debacle is a disgrace.

I sat through the counsel meeting about the single-vendor garbage collector proposal and heard every one of the counsel members and the mayor pay lip service to how environmentally responsible they wanted PTC to be and how shameful it was that we didn't recycle more to save the planet. Guess how many miles per gallon you get when you are sitting at a red light? That's right, you are getting ZERO mpg when you are stopped at a red light. The "engineers" who maintain our stop lights don't have the skills to time the lights on 54. If they were timed you should be able to travel at the speed limit from Publix on the east end of town to the county line without stopping. Instead we sit, stop and start, waste fuel, and waste time. Now we get a new light forced on us for more sitting. Never again should anyone on the city counsel or the mayor ever utter the word environmental...ever.

The city's hands are tied? This is unbelievable.

If Logsdon, Plunkett and Boone want to kill the traffic on Hwy 54-W to help their developer, they need to have the guts to say THEY are putting the traffic signal in at Line Creek Drive.

Saying, "... the city has agreed not to oppose the traffic signal at the intersection" is a cowardly way to run a local government.

Our residents five to ten years from now are going to be cursing the names of those who screwed up our newly widened road.

This deal with the devil is the antithesis of good transportation planning. And don't blame GDOT as they have denied the signal TWICE already.

I do not know what has changed.

Supposedly I have seen the communications, but have seen nothing that justified this permit request being brought before Council.

I have asked what changed to allow this, but have gotten silence for an answer. Which makes me, to be polite, extremely displeased.

This permit request is not in CCD's name, but PTC's.

There are a few challenges for this permit. But I will keep them to myself until the Council Meeting.

Without this light, I doubt CCD could build anything.

No, we are not going in the right direction. Having lived here almost 22 years now, this is not the PTC vision we bought a home here for.

One reason I ran for office was to try to stop going down the wrong path, get back to that Vision and fix as much of what was done wrong as possible. But on the important votes, that speak direction to this, Councilman Sturbaum and I keep losing 3-2.

The bridge will be completed. That is finally on course, but will still be a few more months.

Don Haddix
PTC Councilman
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donhaddix.comI do not know what has changed.

OK, so somebody tell me what has happened at the state level?
This traffic light was turned down earlier because there was not enough separation between the other lights on 74.
The road didn't get any longer
The separation between the lights has not increased.
So, what changed?

I wonder sometimes if anyone is left that had the original concept of PTC? How far back would that go as I don't know? If so I’m curious what they would say about the community now. Is it what they envisioned years ago or completely taken a different direction (BAD). With more commercial development, traffic lights (five stupid lights in half mile), four lanes that have taken away the natural buffer and concrete sound barriers. Empty commercial buildings but more are being built while the economy is in a recession. Let’s not forget the unfinished golf cart bridge that has sat for two years plus. Someone help me find how this has all been a good thing. From a native who has lived here since a child. Ranting on multiple issues but the light just sent me over the top tonight.

Just what we need, yet another traffic light on 54. Well at least it will take the hoodlums that much longer to get here. Peachtree city now needs an HOV lane just to get the kids to school in time