Tomorrow’s News Today reports…

After closing for a day early last month for “construction on the back stairs,” Community Q on Clairmont Road will again be closing for construction. A sign posted on the restaurant’s front door states that they will be closed January 4th through January 8th for “construction,” and will reopen on January 9th at 11AM.

Decaturish is reporting this morning that a CSX train operator who hit a MARTA bus stuck on the tracks back in May 2013 has filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages.

The lawsuit argues that the steep grade of the intersection was a known safety hazard, noting that a collision occurred at that intersection 3 months prior to the MARTA bus accident.

CSX, the City of Decatur, MARTA and GDOT are all listed as defendants in the suit, which is posted in full on Decaturish.

City Manager Peggy Merriss told Decaturish, ““The litigation should have no effect on the North McDonough Streetscapes project or the South Candler/South McDonough/Howard railroad crossing project either,”.

Improving that intersection has long been a goal of Decatur’s 2008 Transportation Plan.  The city held a public input meeting on improvements back in 2013, however getting design approval from the Georgia Department of Transportation usually takes years and there haven’t been any public statements about the status of this project lately.

Photo of 2013 incident courtesy of Lee

Jackson Street @ Edgewood Ave, Atlanta GA (pic submitted by Robert)

• Legislature may act on DeKalb ethics reform measures in next session [AJC]
• Photo: Watkins Building on East Ponce circa 1930 [Next Stop…Decatur]
• Palookaville to drop corndog on New Year’s Eve [AJC]
• Don’t hold your breath on Beltline’s Eastside extension [Curbed]
• Driving is actually less energy-efficient than flying [CityLab]

Beltline photo courtesy of mikehipp via Flickr

Did you do your patriotic duty and go see “The Interview” on Christmas Day?  Find yourself going through a late 1940’s film noir phase earlier this year?  Caved to the critics and went and saw Richard Linklater’s Boyhood?  Finally watched the Godfather?

They all qualify!

What were your favorite films of 2014?