I would also like to add my story about the tunnel under Cameron Trail.
My husband and I were in the tunnel when a teenage girl came barreling into the tunnel from the hill, and we thought we were doomed. We didn’t have time to run back or out of the tunnel in order to not get run over by the golf cart.
My husband grabbed the metal frame holding the windshield of the golf cart and tried to push it over to the side a bit so we wouldn’t get hit.
The cart turned sideways with the driver side wheels up on the side of the wall of the tunnel. The cart would have turned over on us, but the top of the cart hit the other side of the tunnel wall.
In the process, my husband’s shirt was torn and he had a large scrape mark that was bleeding across his shoulder and onto his chest. The cart flipped back upright just as we quickly ran out of the way.
She took off on her cart without stopping to see if we were OK or saying she was sorry. She didn’t even give a backward glance to see if we were not hurt.
Of course, we could not get a cart number to report her because the numbers are on the side of the cart and you can’t see them when someone passes you by.
That entrance into the tunnel is very dangerous because of the hill and the curve on the path just before the hill. I have no clue why someone would want to drive so fast down that hill when you can’t see into the tunnel until you are entering it. The city really needs to maybe straighten out the path leading into that tunnel.
On another note, the tunnel under Crosstown Drive not far from there is awful to walk in. Water and mud are always in that tunnel when it rains and the dirt keeps building up inside of it. There must be a way to fix that so the runoff isn’t so bad. NO one likes to walk inside of it, they prefer taking their chances running across Crosstown to connect to the path across the street.
It is a wonderful idea having the tunnels to go through to avoid traffic, but when they are dangerous and wet and messy, they defeat the purpose of keeping everyone safe.
Judith Pereli
Peachtree City, Ga.
