🚀 go-pugleaf

Andrew <andrew@kill-9.com> wrote:

1)  I don't post flames, I kill them.

I added in git.general, and, as Cathy "Woodard" is running for Atlanta
city council within days and you've posted in my territory...

Are they related?  Coincidence that this post is crossed to atl.general
and that a Woodard is involved.  Related, by any chance?  That would, of
course, be the sticking point for the post.  It wasn't made.

TheNIGHTCRAWLER
(Didn't clip as a new group was added to discussion)



>http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/metro_b3f862d8a455e1c50082.html
>
>Lane Ranger: Tech parking plan 'asinine,' cop says
>Joey Ledford - Staff
>Friday, August 31, 2001
>
>A city of Atlanta decision to allow parking for about 240 Georgia Tech students
>along the medians of busy Tech Parkway has an Atlanta police major seething. 
>
>"We're going to get some Tech students killed," predicted Maj. John Woodard,
>commander of the Zone 5 precinct, which includes the former four-lane parkway
>that is the Tech campus' southwest border. "It's the most asinine design I've
>ever seen.
>
>"If it was designed by a freshman engineering student, they ought to give him
>an F," Woodard said Thursday. "You come around a curve, and all of a sudden
>there are cars parked in your lane." 
>
>Woodard's primary concern about the new Tech student permit parking, which
>began this week, is that students will park and then cross midblock between
>cars, making for a very "pedestrian unfriendly" situation. The street's right
>curbs, he said, would have made far more sense for parking. 
>
>Rodney Weis, Tech's director of parking, said Tech officials persuaded the city
>to allow the parking, which helps alleviate a long-standing campus parking crunch
>and ease pressure on the Home Park neighborhood, often besieged by invading 
>student commuters.
>
>"We're concerned about them opening their doors on traffic," Weis said,
>explaining why Tech officials preferred left-side parking. "There's also MARTA
>and Tech Stinger bus traffic there and we don't want to interfere with it by 
>having bus stops parked full." 
>
>"Losing a door is better than losing a student," countered Woodard. "And have
>you ever seen anybody parallel park on the left side? It isn't pretty." Plus, 
> added Woodard, with the parkway now reduced to two lanes, the buses will back
>up traffic.
>
>Sally Flock, head of PEDS --- Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety --- 
>came down on Woodard's side. "It's ridiculous," she said. "Why would they put 
>it on the median?"
>
>The decision apparently came from the city's Planning, Development and
>Neighborhood Conservation Department. Commissioner Michael Dobbins didn't
>return a call seeking comment. 
>
>
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