NEWS

                                      Motivated by a recent state-led safety audit of Prince Avenue, Athens-Clarke County transportation officials developed a wider assessment of pedestrian safety on other in town corridors, and Athens-Clarke commissioners appear ready to spend some money to address those safety issues.
                                       

At their Tuesday work session, commissioners were taken through the local assessment by Transportation & Public Works Department Director David Clark, who said his department “wanted to balance the needs of Prince Avenue against other pedestrian corridors.”

According to a local analysis of pedestrian and bicycle crashes along more than 20 road segments in the county, four of those segments are along Prince Avenue, with two of those Prince Avenue segments (between Pulaski and Barber streets and Barber Street and North Milledge Avenue) in the top five in pedestrian and bicycle crash rates.