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The city of Milton has been made aware that all of the recently mailed Parks and Recreation Needs Assessment surveys were sent without an envelope in …
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6/10/09
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County gets up to $500K for pedestrian safety improvements at Tucker school
DeKalb County has been awarded up to $500,000 in federal funds to improve pedestrian safety near Livsey Elementary School in Tucker. The county has $315,000 worth of improvements planned for the area near the school geared toward making it safer for students to walk or bike to school off Chamblee-Tucker Road near Henderson Park. “The project will increase safety, reduce air pollution and increase the number of children who walk or ride their bikes to school; therefore increasing physical activity,” county spokeswoman Kristie Swink said in an e-mail. Improvements include: the installation of two speed radar signs on Chamblee-Tucker Road; the installation of raised crosswalks on North Park Drive and Livsey Road; traffic signal upgrades at the intersection of Chamblee-Tucker Road and Livsey Road; and the installation of sidewalks on North Park Drive to Chamblee-Tucker Road. The funds were awarded to the county by the Georgia Department of Transportation through the federal Safe Routes to School program. Ms. Swink said the project is being managed by the state and the county has not received word on when to bid out the project for construction. The department received 65 applications statewide totaling more than $23 million worth. The county is not required to match any of the funds for the project.
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The money being spent on Main Street is a waste. It is very simple. Having a viable commercial town center is just like a math formula. You need at least two restaurants and they need to sell at a minimum beer and wine as that is 50% of profits for dinner. The traffic to the two restaurants then support the dress shop, the art gallery, the coffee shop, the book store, the ice cream shop etc. The crazies in Tucker think they can have a main street with no liquor. Social/religious warfare has doomed downtown Tucker to poverty and spending money won't help unless the churches allow liquor sales for at least two restaurants. Yes, it is that simple! Either allow liquor sales at two restaurants or just bulldoze the place as it will fall into further ruin and be a crime blight on the community. Ask any banker or restaurant owner about what I just wrote. I'll never forget being told "we don't want them fancy people in our community anyways". Those "fancy people" would be anyone with money. So I guess they are trying to make a viable downtown Tucker based on the virtuous poor! Good luck, I've got better things to do than participate in insanity.