07-16-2024, 09:16 AM
There was a bad, fatal accident to occur recently, where someone ran through a stop sign and got hit by a tractor trailer and were killed on impact. I read within the article where they said something along the lines of, "There are 2 to 3 fatal accidents at this intersection every year."
????!!!!!!?????
They went on to say that a roundabout is going to be deployed there, but they haven't yet gotten started on the project.
This... to me... is what is STUPID about how the state DOT goes about doing things... or better said, NOT doing things. If people are getting KILLED at this intersection, 2 or 3 times per year, then what on EARTH is holding up the project to get the roundabout put into place??????
I live very close to a very busy state highway which is PACKED full of tractor trailers who have chosen to route through this area to get from the big Austell intermodal yard and make their way to I-75, rather than going the short distance down Thornton Road and getting on I-20, then NW on I-285, and then north on I-75. I get the idea behind it... traffic through that I-20/I-285/I-75 route can be downright brutal. For truckers it is about cost. They opt to go this way for financial reasons. But aside from the truckers on this local area state highway, there are tons of passenger cars, too, as this is a huge residential area. There is one three-way intersection into that state highway where traffic enters with there being a stop sign on the side road entering the state highway. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen wrecks at that intersection. Cars come out of the side road and pull right out in front of a car or truck coming up or down the state highway, and there is a wreck. Cars crossing directly across lanes of traffic... it is only a matter of time before an accident occurs. It creates a traffic backup nightmare when it happens. But more so, there are most likely injuries and could be fatalities. The DOT has had plans in place now for more than FIFTEEN YEARS to four-lane the state highway, and to install a roundabout at that intersection. But based on what work they are doing on other stretches of that same state highway, it will probably be at least five more years before they even get started on this particular stretch of highway... if not ten more years. Meanwhile, how many wrecks will happen at that very intersection before they deploy the roundabout. Shoot, just build the roundabout and doing it in such a way that when the four-lane work occurs it will just blend right into the already existing roundabout. Nah...
Man... wrecks are happening and they're not giving it any level of priority... or they don't seem to be.
That intersection where the wreck occurred that I was reading about where there was a fatality (ANOTHER fatality). Again, they said there are 2 or 3 fatalities every year at that one intersection. Get the doggone roundabout put into place. Somebody got killed there, yet again. DO IT!! Get busy!!
????!!!!!!?????
They went on to say that a roundabout is going to be deployed there, but they haven't yet gotten started on the project.
This... to me... is what is STUPID about how the state DOT goes about doing things... or better said, NOT doing things. If people are getting KILLED at this intersection, 2 or 3 times per year, then what on EARTH is holding up the project to get the roundabout put into place??????
I live very close to a very busy state highway which is PACKED full of tractor trailers who have chosen to route through this area to get from the big Austell intermodal yard and make their way to I-75, rather than going the short distance down Thornton Road and getting on I-20, then NW on I-285, and then north on I-75. I get the idea behind it... traffic through that I-20/I-285/I-75 route can be downright brutal. For truckers it is about cost. They opt to go this way for financial reasons. But aside from the truckers on this local area state highway, there are tons of passenger cars, too, as this is a huge residential area. There is one three-way intersection into that state highway where traffic enters with there being a stop sign on the side road entering the state highway. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen wrecks at that intersection. Cars come out of the side road and pull right out in front of a car or truck coming up or down the state highway, and there is a wreck. Cars crossing directly across lanes of traffic... it is only a matter of time before an accident occurs. It creates a traffic backup nightmare when it happens. But more so, there are most likely injuries and could be fatalities. The DOT has had plans in place now for more than FIFTEEN YEARS to four-lane the state highway, and to install a roundabout at that intersection. But based on what work they are doing on other stretches of that same state highway, it will probably be at least five more years before they even get started on this particular stretch of highway... if not ten more years. Meanwhile, how many wrecks will happen at that very intersection before they deploy the roundabout. Shoot, just build the roundabout and doing it in such a way that when the four-lane work occurs it will just blend right into the already existing roundabout. Nah...
Man... wrecks are happening and they're not giving it any level of priority... or they don't seem to be.
That intersection where the wreck occurred that I was reading about where there was a fatality (ANOTHER fatality). Again, they said there are 2 or 3 fatalities every year at that one intersection. Get the doggone roundabout put into place. Somebody got killed there, yet again. DO IT!! Get busy!!
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
1 Timothy 2:5-6
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the witness for this proper time.
Acts 4:12
And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."
1 Timothy 2:5-6
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the witness for this proper time.
Acts 4:12
And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”