Tractor Trailer Truck Pulls Down Electrical Wires Near Chick-Fil-A Again
Decatur Metro | January 18, 2012
NFDecatur provides the picture above (and these 1, 2, 3) and DW provides this eyewitness account of what closed Trinity Avenue between McDonough and Church Street for the second time in the past four days.
Wednesday, 7:30AM I was sitting one car back from the Chick-Fil-A drive thru window when the Food Service tractor trailer entered the parking lot. Unfortunately they didn’t pull all the wires high enough from Sunday’s accident. The trailer pulled down a light pole and the offending wire. I was blowing the horn and waving but the driver did not get the message until it was too late.
My lord, what is up with this! You would think they have some way of measuring such things to prevent this other than a basic eyeballing of the height of the wires.
what the hey-oh is going on here?!
BURY THE WIRES
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Among other things, the traffic signals and supporting structures can’t be buried.
Just curious – why not?
Gravity still works. The traffic signals can’t just hover over the intersection.
Wouldn’t it be hard to see the traffic signals if they were underground?
Yes, but spme cities (new orleans) have lights on poles on either side of the intersection.
Trucks still hit those poles, sugah.
less likely if the traffic signal poles are just straight up vs hang over the street. In the West, may light signals are to the side of the intersection on straight up poles, vs hanging over the intersection. Less cluttered intersections- though I have no idea if less/more safe.
This subthread has made me giggle. But also wonder why some things have changed in mind-numbing radical ways that I never imagined (computers, cameras, phones, internet, music distribution, the polar icecaps, the Arab revolution, the price of automobiles) and then other things are the same old, same old (telephone wires, traffic signals, children, CSD–just kidding!) We can’t virtually project traffic signals on intersections yet? What happened to that zebra projection on Ponce buildings thingamajiggy? Or use hovercraft technology so traffic signal boxes don’t need wires, just WiFi? Or put devices in vehicles so that the traffic signals project onto the dashboard? If GPS can tell my aged father how to take dirt roads to avoid current traffic on I-75 around McDonough, it can’t tell him green light, yellow light, red light?
I heard the traffic guy on the radio report it this morning and thought “Man…you’re a couple of days late you need to get better sources…”
Deja vu all over again.
Could bring new meaning to the term “fried chicken”.
Did they end up having anyone directing traffic and pedestrians? I crossed Trinity to get to the MARTA station at about 8:20 and held my breath that I wouldn’t get hit by a car turning on Church, since there was nobody enforcing the crosswalk. Was a little peeved to see a policeman just sitting in his parked car at that intersection, staring at me while I tried to decide when would be safe to cross. :/
They had someone directing when I went through at about 7:45 doing my drop-off trip to College Heights. But when I went back through at 8:10ish there was no one there. Really strange.
That’s just ridiculous that there was a parked police car with a police officer inside and he wasn’t helping direct traffic / pedestrians. The intersection of chuch / trinity is already a little dicey in my opinion, mostly because cars just don’t pay attention to pedestrians and crosswalks. Here’s hoping it’s all cleared up because I’m about to walk over that way and I’m really not in the mood to get hit by cars today.
I’m sure if you would have asked, he would have been happy to hold your hand while you crossed the street.
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HIT MOR WIRIN’
Awesome. See, this is why we need to be able to vote for Comment of the Day.
Fascinating that the DM Course at GaTech isn’t using Richard Florida, a critical scholar and commentator now with The Atlantic online. Amazing
What? There’s a DM course at Ga Tech? And what does this have to do with the power lines near Chick-Fil-A?
I think Annie meant to post her comment under “Morning Metro” whose bylines today included the fact that DM is listed as one of the course materials for GA Tech’s “CS 4472: Design of Online Communities”.
Yes, I see that now. Thanks for clearing that up, and no snark intended to Annie. I was genuinely confused!
Glenn Beck says this is a jihadist action by the chickens to shut down the cow’s persecution