I sit at that intersection each morning on College heading east to work and see tons of cars coming from the south heading north on S. McDonough, crossing the tracks and turning left onto Howard (with many of them turning into the DHS parking lot on the immediate right). If this isn’t rectified, folks on the southside will be heavily impacted and have to circle and entire block and three lights just to get into the high school lot. I fear people will also attempt U-turns in front of the high school just so they can turn onto Howard instead of driving around the entire block to Trinity, Commerce and then Howard. Atlanta Ave. will also have to bear much the burden of the overflow as well and it’s already very unsafe.

When I spoke to the consultant, they said that it’d be easy to make this change, but I see that no change was made. I also know that Dr. Edwards spoke to Peggy about this issue a while back and expressed her great concern over it.

Also, can we please get a left-hand turn signal on College Ave. heading east?!!! I know it’s a county issue, but I was told years ago that y’all were working on it with them. When Fifth Ave. opens back up and many northsiders try to get back home from dropping off their kids at 5th Ave., they will see how hard it is to cross the tracks heading east….and I’m afraid the complaints will start really coming in!!

Thanks for listening!

Hi neighbors,

Did you snap any photos of the Great Flood yesterday in the 600 block of Clairemont, south of Scott Blvd? If so, please email them to me at organicbarb@yahoo.com

I heard it disabled both northbound lanes, stretched for at least 3 houses, was nearly up to my front steps, was knee-high on teenagers walking through, caused cars to stall, and required several Decatur police & fire personnel to manage the traffic single-file.

Thanks,
Barbara Davis