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When someone wants to get to Boone Hospital or connect to Broadway by avoiding main roads, William Street is a route they could take.
This street offers a straight shot from Rollins Street to Broadway and then from Broadway to Paris Road. The cut-through means more traffic through the neighborhood, often with disregard for the speed limit.
A project to calm traffic speeds already has been completed on the south portion of William Street.
Weather-dependent overlay work will happen on William Street this week, with the traffic calming project to happen soon after, Project Manager Taylor Shelton wrote in an email to the Tribune.
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ATLANTA Absentee property ownership in many small college football towns has a negative impact on permanent residents of those communities, according to a study by a Georgia State University geosciences researcher.
The research is the first known attempt to quantify and map local geographies of gameday home investments.
Each weekend in the fall tens of thousands of football fans flood into college towns to watch their favorite teams kick off against rival schools. Many of them stay in gameday homes, investment properties that sit vacant for much of the year. Taylor Shelton, assistant professor of geosciences and the study s author, examined data from more than a dozen college towns in the South where schools in the Southeastern Conference attract large fan followings. He compared cities like Athens, Ga., Gainesville, Fla., and Auburn, Ala., and developed a study of Starkville, Miss., home of theMississippi State Bulldogs.