Craig Bowen

wants Senoia's leaders to do something about the traffic on Pylant Street.

Bowen lives

on the busy street and told the City Council Monday night that the street

is now being used as a shortcut for people from Turin and destinations

west of town as a shortcut to Rockaway Road.

The concerned

resident teaches school and said every morning when he gets ready to back

out of his driveway, cars go whizzing by at speeds exceeding the speed

limit by up to 25 miles an hour.

"If it

was just 10 miles an hour, it wouldn't be so bad," he said.

Bowen is concerned

about the number of children and elderly residents who live on the street

and suggested the city build a speed bump to slow drivers down.

But City Attorney

Drew Whalen said speed bumps are not approved by the state Department

of Transportation as speed-reducing devices. If the city were to build

the bump, it would not be able to get any state funding for repaving the

street.

Mayor Joan

Trammell agreed that something needs to be done about speeding in the

city, especially on streets such as Pylant and Standing Rock Road that

commuters use as cut-through roads on their way to work in Peachtree City

or Atlanta.

She asked Police

Chief Julian Campbell to start more aggressively monitoring the situation

and asked whalen to see which devices the state would allow to be used

to slow the traffic.

The city will

discuss the issue again at its Aug. 6 meeting.