Traffic light snag could cause problems

Traffic light snag

could cause problems

The Avenue

at Peachtree City is expected to open March 29, but problems have cropped

up with the anticipated placement of the traffic light on Ga. Highway

54 where it intersects with the entrance to the project.

The Georgia

Department of Transportation has withdrawn its agreement to allow the

traffic light to be erected there, sources told The Citizen Wednesday.

That light was a condition in the city's approval of the concept plan

for The Avenue, along with other improvements to that intersection.

If the light

can't be put in place the matter will likely go back before the planning

commission, said Jim Williams, the city's director of developmental services.

The city council might also eventually get involved, he added.

The requirement

was for the light to be tied to the one at Hwy. 74 through a fiber optic

cable, Williams said.

"We've

got a mess there," Williams said, later adding that he was optimistic

that the DOT will eventually approve the light at the entrance to The

Avenue.

"If they

don't, it (traffic) will get worse," Williams said.

The light is

to be erected at the Hwy. 54 entrance to The Avenue, which is in-between

the current traffic lights at the intersections of Hwy. 74 and Huddleston

Road. The Huddleston light is just across the CSX railroad bridge from

the proposed location of the light for The Avenue.