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In git.talk.flame Andrew <andrew@kill-9.com> wrote:
> 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. 

yes, when the ajc starts commenting on how idiotic the parking dept is, you
know there's a problemo...

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