Residential street gets slowdown

PEACHTREE CITY - When Nancy Nelms moved to Golfview Drive in the south metro Atlanta city of Peachtree City, the residential street was quiet with little traffic. <br> <br> But as the city grew and new neighborhoods connected to the street, outside drivers started using the street as a cut-through. <br> <br> So Nelms and her neighbors complained to the City Council. <br> <br> Nelms said residents just asked that something be done so it would be safe to go get their mail. <br> <br> Her neighbor, Lou Finley, said ``We have seen this beautiful street turn into the Atlanta raceway.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> What they got for the one-mile loop was four speed humps, 12 stop signs, eight signs announcing the approach of stop signs, six 20-miles per hour speed limit signs, two signs announcing the approach of speed humps, two ``Caution speed hump height increased&#39;&#39; signs and two ``Do not pass&#39;&#39; signs. <br> <br> The project, however, didn&#39;t please everyone on the street. <br> <br> Curtis Wagner said the City Council responded to a vocal minority and argued that the humps and stop signs are a problem for emergency vehicles and violate the federal Manual of Traffic Control Devices. <br> <br> Wagner says he collected more than 700 names on a petition asking the council to return his street to the way it used to be. That petition will be delivered at Tuesday night&#39;s council meeting.

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