S. Candler Traffic Calming Effort, East Lake Elementary, and the Southern Stereotype
Decatur Metro | November 12, 2015 | 12:44 pm
- Decatur group seeks lower speed, traffic calming on South Candler [AJC]
- East Lake asks for seat at the table during negotiations to lease elementary school [Decaturish]
- New Falcons Stadium will have Atlanta’s fanciest pedestrian bridge [ABC]
- Georgia Trust “Places in Peril” list includes “Intown Teardowns” [GA Trust]
- Brain Pickings” Maria Popova: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living [The Atlantic]
- Vanity Fair turned me into a Southern stereotype—and I let them [Atlanta Mag]
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Re: S. Candler Rd. traffic calming. I run along that road a lot, and am always surprised (and a little skeered) by just how fast people go on that street. Witnessed a 4-car accident a couple weeks ago, where one car rear-ended another, which pushed that car forward, etc.
The flashing crosswalk has helped, but lots of people still ignore it. Frustrating.
And when they come zooming around the Kirk Road intersection curve from the south…watch out.
Yes, even the sidewalks don’t feel safe when cars are passing at 45 mph (if you’re lucky). The biggest problems are that the school zone does not fully cover the area where kids and parents are crossing/walking (going northbound, school zone doesn’t start until past Bucher) and the lack of cross walks. The only two cross walks are at Kirk and Winnona, but many kids and families coming from west side of Candler come out in between those. While many will argue pedestrians should go down to Kirk or up to Winnona, that can add a significant amount to a walk. If the goal is to encourage walking and biking, the school zone needs to be extended to slow traffic during school hours and at least one additional cross walk needs to be installed.
Ticketing at 1 MPH over the limit (26 MPH) is ridiculous.
If that is what the law says then the speed limit should not be lowered until that joke of a law is changed.
I’m certainly not against ticketing dangerous drivers, but speed measuring equipment can’t possibly resolve 1 MPH properly, and car speedometers certainly cannot! I can see the revenue gravy train warming up now…
That’s a State highway, I think. Does the City even have permission to use that equipment there? It has to be allowed street by street, you know.
Your 4 car accident was likely caused by someone not paying attention, not because the speed limit is 35.
DPD can and has run Radar on S Candler using state rules.
I walk my kids to school every morning and cross Candler. If they don’t at least put in some additional cross walks it is inevitable that there will be a horrible accident involving a kid walking to school. The state (GDOT) gives lip service to using alternative means of transportation, but then can’t be bothered to make the effort to make those alternatives safe from the morons driving 50 on that road and juggling their giant cell phones and coffee.