{"id":1641,"date":"2011-08-15T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/why-should-traffic-safety-not-be-a-pertinent-fact.html"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:03:06","slug":"why-should-traffic-safety-not-be-a-pertinent-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/why-should-traffic-safety-not-be-a-pertinent-fact.html","title":{"rendered":"Why should traffic safety not be a pertinent fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve seen that <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/08\/suburbia-dangerous-for-pedestrians.html\">\ntraffic safety is a big problem in Atlanta<\/a> and elsewhere,\nand\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/communities-not-cul-de-sacs.html\">\nVirginia is leading the way in traffic redesigns to fix such problems.<\/a>\nMeanwhile,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/lot-size-and-code-enforcement-on-old-pine-road-8-june-2010.html\">\nLowndes County<\/a>\ndoesn&#8217;t consider it even pertinent:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/lot-size-and-code-enforcement-on-old-pine-road-8-june-2010.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/VJAs0zqph3w\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nTraffic on Old Pine will be regulated by the amount of people who\nuse the highway;\ntraffic on Bemiss since you and I moved out there forty years ago.\n<br>\n&#8230;\n<br>\nI&#8217;m not going to argue Bemiss Highway, it&#8217;s not a pertinent fact.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VJAs0zqph3w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s right, traffic and traffic safety are considered not pertinent\nto building subdivisions, according to the Chairman of the Lowndes County\nCommission, and the actions of the Commissioners and staff.\nThe developer gets to consider only their one property and\nthe neighbors get to deal with all the effects on all the related roads.\nPrivatization of profits and socialization of problems\nsuch as traffic accidents.\nDoes that seem right to you?\n<p>\nIf not, it&#8217;s going to go on until more people argue and\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/08\/debate-is-not-allowed-well-why-not.html\">debate.<\/a>\nIn fact, many of Lowndes County&#8217;s T-SPLOST tax request would make the problem worse.\nSee <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/08\/do-we-need-more-of-the-same-unsafe-roads.html\">\nnext post.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve seen that traffic safety is a big problem in Atlanta and elsewhere, and Virginia is leading the way in traffic redesigns to fix such problems. 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