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Peachtree City Councilman Kevin Madden makes a point during the April 1 council meeting. Photo/Cal Beverly.
NEWS ANALYSIS There’s this $45 million middle school going up out in the eastern sticks of Peachtree City, and it already has a traffic problem.
Here’s the problem: Nobody can figure out a good way to get lots and lots of buses and cars and students and teachers into and later, out of the new school, due for completion in December of this year.
You might ask: Why didn’t somebody think of this traffic problem before buying the property behind the Peachtree City United Methodist Church currently reachable only via a privately owned dirt road and a two-lane neighborhood street and then building a multi-million dollar facility using mostly money raised by a local option sales tax?
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Some years ago a lady who liked reading my rough-edged opinions became a friend and approached me at a restaurant to ask, “Terry, why don’t you run for mayor of Peachtree City?”
Those who know me well instantly recognize I would be woefully misfit in that role or City Council. I told her with a smile, “I’d rather lick a gas station toilet seat all day long!”
My reluctance comes from knowing, no matter how pure my heart, no matter how diligent my toil as a public official, there would always be a long line of vocal citizens eager to tell me how they know better. My personality would not mix well with daily complaints, lectures and an occasional finger poked in my chest.
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