Prepare accordingly.
Over on the Extreme Makeover: Downtown Decatur Edition website, Deputy City Manager Hugh Saxon writes…
As part of the city crosswalk replacement program, new concrete crosswalks are being built at two locations in downtown Decatur. A new raised mid-block crosswalk will be built in the 200 block on East Ponce de Leon Avenue near North Candler Street and a raised speed table will be installed over the entire intersection at Clairemont and Ponce de Leon Avenues.
Vehicles will have to detour around these intersections from Thursday, Nov. 17, through Wednesday, Nov. 23, weather permitting, to allow the concrete to be placed and harden. The map below shows the detours. The 100 block of Clairemont Avenue and Ponce de Leon Avenue between its two intersections with Commerce Drive will be limited to local traffic only during this period. Detour routes will be marked to guide residents and visitors around downtown Decatur using Commerce Drive, but East Court Square and on-street parking will remain open during construction.
All sidewalks will remain open during the duration of construction. We encourage visitors to park and walk to their favorite restaurants and retail establishments.
Decatur is in the process of installing 6 new artful crosswalks downtown, which will replace the faux-brick crosswalks that have let most everyone down since they were installed in 2009.
Impromptu crosswalk festival downtown anyone?
Now if the city will paint a crosswalk on Clairmont at the intersection with Wilton…I will be a happy man. Crosswalk signal with no crosswalk painted. Reported twice in two years to the city…no response.
That section of Clairemont Ave being SR 155, it’s GDOT’s right-of-way and the City would need permission to do anything to it. No excuse if the City hasn’t escalated such a request to GDOT in 2 years, but maybe there’s been no answer from the state.
Holy moley did this gnarl up traffic this evening. I did not anticipate it being *that* bad.
WOW! Work on Mcdonough, Ponce, Trinity, and College at the same time. 5PM traffic was awful.
Apparently in addition to this work here, DeKalb County had some sort of major water emergency on Church and there was an evening parade for the kids at Glennwood Elementary that went from there to downtown somewhere.
Demonic convergence!
Google Fiber installer hit a water line. Caused Cakes & Ale to have to close last night.