Sidewalks on Scott Blvd
GDOT announced at a public meeting in late Feb that the sidewalks scheduled to be improved and in some cases installed new along Scott Blvd had been dropped from a proposed project due to funding. The project, in play since 2001, was to improve the sidewalks along both sides of Ponce de Leon and Scott Blvd from Moreland to North Decatur Road approx 3 miles. The anticipated cost and the funding established in 2001 was just less than 1 million dollars and it has now risen to an estimated cost of 5.0 million, thus cut backs. Now they propose to do just sidewalks in the Fernbank - Deep End Park area. But after discussions with our GDOT board members (Emory McClinton and Robert Brown), Rep Mary Margaret Oliver and Stephanie Benefield and Bryant Poole, GDOT District Engineer and a neighborhood meeting at Westchester on Tuesday night (April 1), they appear to be receptive to doing some work along Scott Blvd within the city of Decatur. The decision on our part, the community, will be to decide between improvements to existing sidewalks or new sidewalks where there are none (south side of Scott across from Westchester, Lamont to Clairemont). I don’t need to mention to any one the danger of walking or riding a bike for that matter, along Scott. Which choice would you prefer? New or repairs? I would love to hear from you.
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June 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
We support New Sidewalks on Scott Blvd.
Too bad that the funding cannot be updated to the larger figure. That would improve the current aesthetic of non-car travel towards Atlanta.
Thank you for the very nice Blog.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I’d prefer new sidewalks along Scott Blvd. - especially the stretch between Lamont and Clairemont. Come to think of it, I’d also like to see a stretch of sidewalk between the west end of Parkside Cir to Willow Ln and on up to the big intersection of Scott/N. Decatur/Forkner.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
If Scott already has a sidewalk on the other side of the street, and there are crosswalks to get to the other side, I’d prefer repairs to other streets. I think Scott doesn’t get as many pedestrians as our other streets because of the volume of traffic on it.