Letters to the Editor

Big yellow signs: What’s happening to Fayette?

Tue, 03/21/2006 - 6:23pm
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Ohmigosh! Who authorized the hideous, huge, schoolbus-yellow street signs at almost every intersection along Ga. Highway 54?

Our county and city leaders have spent many hours on discussion of signage legislation so that our roads won’t look like Riverdale, and local businesses have spent a lot of money complying with the sign laws.

Yet these eye-sores have popped up almost overnight. Even big cities don’t resort to such intrusive street-labeling. What is happening to our beautiful county?

Varner Holmes
Fayetteville, Ga.

The editor replies: As reported in our Friday paper, blame (or praise) the Georgia Department of Transportation, which has authority for signage along state highways. As reported in today’s paper, the yellow signs were a “mistake,” the DOT says, and will be replaced by equally large green signs with white lettering.

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Yellow signs
Submitted by Vernon on Wed, 03/22/2006 - 5:21pm.

Not everyone traveling on highway 54 lives in the area and it makes it easier for them to locate a road without causing accidents by stopping or turning at the last second. Look at the attitudes of many people in Peachtree City and then you will see "tacky'. I guess the "snobs' of Peachtree City don't have anything better to whine about.

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Call the DOT, ask for the signs
Submitted by McDonoughDawg on Wed, 03/22/2006 - 6:13pm.

I'm sure they will let you have them, you can put them up in your town. Bright yellow signs are not for this use. They denote a danger/crossing/or some other hazard, this is why they are being replaced, not "because we don't have anything else to whine about".

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Big yellow signs (soon to be green)
Submitted by happyinptc on Wed, 03/22/2006 - 4:00pm.

PTC has adopted a consistent signage program that is sufficient for anyone who can read. As usual, a 3-letter government agency (DOT) has decided to spend more of our money on frivolity by adding billboard size signs across the city. Do the ordinances of PTC not prohibit signs of this size and height? Or is Riverdale the new "standard of government excellence" for all cities on the southside? There are so many sizes and shapes of signs in so many locations there, that it is impossible to read them and drive safely.

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No, They Don't
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Submitted by oodlesOpoodles on Wed, 03/22/2006 - 4:21pm.

Peachtree City ordinances can not do anything about the state controled DOT putting up signs on the state Highway. The City can not legislate the state or the federal government. So we will have to live with whatever they give us.

Another example is how the DOT can come into town for a road project and make a huge mess (violate state erosion control laws). The City controls local builders and contractors, but can not control the DOT and as such the messes over on the 54 West side have been awful.

Sorry to inform you of the bad news, but maybe if we all went to the GDOT website and got all the contact us info and raised some cane, maybe that could help.

Poodles


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