Admitting defeat in round one

but committing $10,000 to a "Plan B," the Peachtree City Council

has increased its bid to slow drivers on Golf View Drive, a popular shortcut

through a once-peaceful residential neighborhood.

"Plan B" includes

lowering Golf View's speed limit to 20 miles per hour, adding three three-way

stops, and extending the speed humps so they cover both lanes of traffic.

Two of the three-way stops,

at the intersections of Golf View and Oakmount Drive and Pinemount Drive,

are on either side of "Thrill Hill," a section of Golf View

that particularly worries area residents. A third three-way stop will

also be erected on the other side of Golf View at Cockspur Court.

The humps, which are separated

emergency vehicles a way to snake around them when necessary.

The problem is that regular

motorists were avoiding the humps the same way, illegally, according to

City Engineer Troy Besseche. One such motorist was even featured dodging

one of the speed humps on a recent front page of The Peachtree Citizen

Review.

The humps will also be raised

in an effort to combat such vehicles as SUVs which have suspensions that

don't need to slow down to avoid the jarring from speed bumps, it was

noted.

The additional measures were

approved by the City Council at its regular meeting last week. Under criticism

from several Golf View Drive residents, Mayor Steve Brown reiterated that

the traffic slowing plan was a work in progress.