In the Loop
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Is ACC Finally Getting Serious About Pedestrian Safety?
On a typical day, more than 1,000 students cross Lumpkin Street adjacent to campus every hour on foot, making it the county's busiest pedestrian zone, and setting up potentially dangerous conflicts with car traffic. Accident data from the past five years show Lumpkin's hills to be the most dangerous areas—26 reported bike and pedestrian accidents— followed by Dougherty Street downtown and Prince Avenue between Pulaski and Barber streets, where, Athens-Clarke County Transportation Director David Clark told commissioners last week, car speeds are "still extremely high.”
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Gov. Deal Vetoes the Flagpole Crosswalk Act
Photo Credit: Porter McLeod
Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have required drivers to stop at crosswalks when beacons are flashing—not because he wants you to get run over, necessarily, but because he's worried about the implications for cyclist safety.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of May 11
Georgia Republican Party Chairman John Padgett.
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
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Ex-Flagpole Editor's Dad Safe After Nepal Quake
Martin Emanuel.
The father of former Flagpole City Editor Ben Emanuel is, thankfully, back home safe after going missing in Nepal.
Martin Emanuel, 71, was hiking the Tamang Heritage Trail on Apr. 25 when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit. The Decatur resident described the scene to reporters in Atlanta today:
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Fill Out This Survey if You Care About the Eastside
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Today is the last day to complete a survey that will help Athens-Clarke County officials determine how to improve Lexington Road.
A committee of commissioners and others has been meeting for almost a year to look at ways to spruce up the Eastside corridor, including traffic, beautification and revitalizing the Willowood shopping center at the corner of Lexington and Gaines School Road.
The survey also includes questions about Athens-Ben Epps Airport. Fill it out here.
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Commission Approves Backyard Chickens in Athens
Sorry, Commissioner Rooster. You're still illegal.
Peep this: The Athens-Clarke County Commission approved an ordinance allowing backyard chickens tonight by an 8–1 vote.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of May 4
Photo Credit: Rick O'Quinn/UGA Photographic Services
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
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Athens Is a Terrible Place to Raise Kids if You're Poor
Athens is one of the worst places for a child to grow up in a low-income family if that child hopes to escape poverty.
The New York Times published an interactive feature today based on research into income mobility by two Harvard economists, Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren. They used data on segregation by race and income, schools, violent crime and two-parent households to determine how where children are raised affects their future income. They tracked 5 million people who moved during childhood to measure how moving affected their earnings.
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