You all don't seem to get the point: those walks are Georgia's walks---not PTC.

What would a person in a wheelchair do if he met a cart on those narrow walks?

Where would a bike go? etc.You aren't thinking!

Someday there will be tons of businesses or condos along there!

Carts will have to go in the back, assuming that PTC doesn't outlaw them once they don't want to maintain the paths. I know the cops would like to close them now.

Think a minute! Hip pocket is a PTC street! Yet they probably are still illegal to cart on.

I believe the proximity to the State Highway has something to do with the rules re Golf Cart operation. The sidewalk down hwy 74S is narrow, and close to the roadway.

somehow I expected more of you than this. "Pay attention-you work for us-the citizens and taxpayers" Certainly you don't believe that. Afterall, we, the citizens and taxpayers, of Fayette County have continued to send the same bunch of pols (or at least, similar bunch of pols) back to City Hall, the County Commission, the BOE election cycle after election cycle. Come on, MC...you know better than to believe that they actually work for the citixens and taxpayers. Keep the faith

Even a dead fish can go with the flow

At least the staff should act like professionals and present alternative and creative ideas to those who vote on things and are supposedly in charge. The staff is certainly good at filling out grant applications, so why can't they use that talent to petition DOT for an alternative design. Surely no one - even in DOT believes that the sidewalks will be used. Lots of money spent for nothing on the sidewalks.

Cartpaths on the other side of the walls would be cheaper, safer and much more useful. Why wasn't that considered?

And why in the world are the guardrails inside he sidewalks instead of outside - next to the highway? What sense does that make?

You're not paying attention. When I posed the same question about guardrail placement Bonkers supplied the answer. They keep short people from tagging the walls.

If you remember one of my issues in 2007 was talking to DOT about how 74 was to be done since the Council position at that time was 'not our jurisdiction.'

Sturbuam and I have pushed for changing some things on 74 with DOT since we got on and have had some success via Staff talking to DOT once instructed to do so.

The walls are right back against private property lines and hill banks. So, to put them behind would mean having to move the walls closer to the road. At some locations that would mean the walls would be against 74, which would look terrible.

Not saying a better design was impossible, but I am not sure what it would have been with the pinch points along 74 between the wall and 74.

As for being sidewalks, we know they have to be widened to accommodate golf carts. Should have been discussed a few years ago, but wasn't, since Council said it just wasn't Council jurisdiction.

And by the way, you keep referring to the Mayor or City Manager as being solely responsible for initiating such communication. They are not. Council Members can do so either individually or by majority over the Mayor. Staff does not work for the Mayor only. It works for all of Council, as a group or individually.

The Mayor does not control Council agendas or individual Council Members as your writing seem to imply. He is powerful but not that powerful. So your girl Plunkett is just as responsible as Logsdon is in this issue.

You are completely right GDOT is not easy to deal with. With the economy down even more than ever. As well DOR and EPA are more than difficult at times.

Maybe that will answer some questions posed.

Don Haddix
PTC Councilman
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You are showing your superiority again.
You should know that State highways with sidewalks do not allow golf carts to run on them!

Besides they are too narrow to pass each other in opposit directions and walkers and handicapped would have to really scramble what with these 25 MPH racers! How about ATVs on them also?

Had you ever thought that they are required for the handicapped to get around? All things aren't done by idiots, just most!

No!

If I did I would simply pull off the path and let them pass. I would hope that anyone would. For the one idiot out there who may not yield to a wheel chair, a million tickets and signs won't fix him or her. It's ridiculous to spend that much money on a pathway, in a town with that many golf carts, and forbid them from traversing it. When my wife and I encountered the pathway on 74 we decided it must be for golf carts too because there were tire yaw marks on the path. If I got a ticket on that path I'd cry entrapment due to the allure of the nice new concrete apparent thoroughfare.

What's a "yaw"?

A "yaw"

Is: A Scandinavian's JAW.

It is the only way he can pronounce that word!

Some of the airline pilots will tell you it is flying slightly sideways but don't you believe such nonsense.

yawl.
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Isn't that where one can sail into the wind and not require any following wind into the sail?

Or is that "tacking" of a yawl?

are terms most commonly used to describe the movement of space vehicles, but if you want to know more about fixed wing acft "flying sideways", Google "sideslipping".

It's a sailboat where the tiller or wheel is ahead of the mizzen mast.
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Of course you can--I have done it. In a twin-engine Beechcraft, by severe cross-controlling you can "flat turn" the plane sideways. We did it for technical purposes and some plane drivers were much better than others. Some were known to pop rivets so severely did they flat turn the plane.

Well. back in my younger and dumber days I took a friend up in his Taylorcraft - AKA "T" Crash - to introduce him to some "mild" aerobatics.

We got up to 3,000 feet over San Pedro Harbor and I told him to "watch this". I yanked the yoke back and stomped hard on the rudder and started a beautiful snap roll. It was beautiful all right up till a rather large "bang" from the empanage.

I lighted up on the controls as we went inverted not wanting to shed any pieces. I don't know how I managed but, we never exceeded the VNE and came out out of the bottom upright and made it back to the airport.

The cause, the old cotton muslin had pulled from the empanage and snapped back.
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Actually, they came mostly from a single Engine DeHavilland RU-6 "Beaver", not from the Twin-Engine Beechcraft.

Never flew one of those. I do have some time in civilian U-10 Helio Courier. That was a hoot to fly.
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I knew it!

Someone would fall for the satire.

A pilot it appears.

The space station Yaws all of the time, doesn't it? Except for re-entry of the shuttle.

No, not a rated one. I was enlisted and while I normally flew as a "Technical Operator", there were times when it was necessary for me to sit in the Right Seat, handle all the Navaids and A/G Comms. And would you like to guess what you do when the Aircraft Commander(Pilot) unlocks the single control panel, flips it over to your side and says "Here, you fly this thing for awile, I'm gonna have some coffee." Why you fly the damn thing, of course. Of course he knew what I had enough right seat hrs to know what I was doing and since I was already in charge of navigation (Doppler Radar) and comms, all I had to do was drive it around the sky in our established "racetrack" pattern, making every attempt to stay straight & level. Gotterdun!

There are 2-3 people that are wheelchair bound that use the cartpaths
around three ponds that I see frequently and everyone is very respectful of them even, believe it or not the teenagers.

Obama's weapon of Choice!

I can barely remember the days of one-lane gravel rutty roads where everybody had to yield for everything coming!

These roads weren't built however they were worn into the land. (No I'm not talking about the westward Ho people--sometime in the 30s.)

Just as buildings have handicapped things by law, so does main roads within a city.

I know some want to use everything even if not intended for them to use! Have you kept any billfolds you found with money in it lately?

Just to make sure they got there, I'm headed to Bozeman, Montana tomorrow to check them out. Be back in a week.

Egad Bonker$!!! Please don't tell us your memory is not failing!!! As the resident OG (old guy) we depend on you for.......................someone help me out here.

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Riding in those covered wagons on all those rutty roads scrambled poor Bonkie's brain. Sometimes if he shakes his head enough every thing falls into place and the synapses start synapsing and there is a moment of lucidity---then it goes away and we have our everyday, Bonkie. We really depend on Bonkie for a lot of things: occasionally comic relief even though we know that is not his intent, to get our juices flowing when he irritates us, to use everyone of our senses and faculties to figure out just what the heck he is talking about--like the wallet statement---did he lose his wallet along with his senses? He gives a whole new meaning to train of thought process. But, hey, he is our Bonkie and we love and treasure him. We should have a coffee in his honor, then take him fishing, then out to each of our favorite restaurants for our favorite meals--where we will all have several alcoholic beverages as we discuss the merits of kayaking as opposed to canoeing,then each of us share the joys of our latest vacation. By this time he would be in a catatonic state and we could have a brain scan done just to see what does go on in that cranium. It would certainly be a boon to medical science.

Syndesis is my thing. Although both entities were of the XX-Y variety.
Must I explain everything? The "wallet incident" meant that the same kind of person who would keep someone's money is the same kind.......well you know....I'm just sayin!

I don't do coffees with clods, er...calaMITIES.

Would the term "institutional" knowledge be appropriate? Sorry Bonker$,I just couldn't help it.

I think you belonged to an "institution" for over 20 years, didn't you? Think differently!

Do you drink while you blog? If you still remember when you drove the roads in the 30's you probably shouldn't be driving the golf cart paths today.