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I\u2019m sure this will have no negative effects<\/a>: City of Decatur launches \u201cpace car\u201d program to try to slow down motorists and reduce accidents<\/span><\/p>\n Let my start off by saying that I\u2019m a fan of Decatur.\u00a0 Decatur is the small town in the big city that has lots of character, good bars and restaurants.\u00a0 The Your Dekalb Farmer\u2019s Market.<\/span><\/p>\n More importantly, Decatur will always have a permanent impact on my life, as it is where I got married, at our courthouse wedding<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, the City of Decatur will always hold a special place in my heart, regardless of the words that are going to come flying out of my fingertips in the ensuing paragraphs.<\/span><\/p>\n Although good intentioned, I can\u2019t imagine any reality where Decatur\u2019s pace car program isn\u2019t going to be met with massive resistance, ridicule, and a general sentiment of resentment.\u00a0 Cars being driven by people who are declaring their intention of doing one of the few things every motorist on the planet doesn\u2019t like, in slowing them down, there\u2019s no way that this goes in the direction that the city really hopes it will go in.<\/span><\/p>\n As much as I do love Decatur, the reality remains that the whole place really is a nightmare region to drive around in.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s on Ponce, Candler, Dekalb, Scott Blvd., or any of the other main thoroughfares through the city, the roads and lanes are narrow, there\u2019s large swaths of street with crumbled, dirt or just plain no sidewalks, and the quality of said roads and sidewalks are often as deteriorated as if the taxes were drained from their funds in Sim City<\/em>, so they just start falling apart.<\/span><\/p>\n Combine perilous infrastructure with the general aggressive nature of Atlanta drivers, and you have the recipe that makes driving around in Decatur as generally risky to the point where they\u2019re always looking for ways to improve safety around the roads of the city, whether from the city itself, or citizens who are trying to take matters into their own hands.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, it\u2019s really kind of their own sword that they\u2019re falling on; as much as I like Decatur, the people within the city are this eclectic mass that takes a tremendous amount of pride in their small town feel, but want to enjoy all the luxuries and benefits that come with living close to a massive market like Atlanta, and there\u2019s a large sense of resentment and us versus everyone from those who live there.<\/span><\/p>\n Getting back to the original point of this post, I can\u2019t imagine that people who are taking it upon themselves to be the enforcers of the road; going exactly the speed limit, stopping at yellow lights, coming to complete stops and looking all directions at stop signs, aren\u2019t going to regret it in time.\u00a0 As much as Decatur-ites might not like day-traders and tourists, their little hamlet goes broke in ten seconds without their money.\u00a0 Drivers from Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Tucker, Stone Mountain and Conyers are going to be going to or through Decatur, and there\u2019s little anyone there can do about it.<\/span><\/p>\n I imagine that aggro driver A will be aggro-ing down Ponce, and they see the car in front of them with a pace car sticker on their windshield; they now have visual confirmation of a car that must<\/em> be passed, and has pledged to go the speed limit or less to the griefing of others, and they are undoubtedly going to exorcise their ability to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n Road rager B is having a bad day, and they\u2019re sitting through three cycles of lights at Scott and Claremont, and they inch their way up to find out that some dork with a pace car sticker is the one not taking the right on red, and they go ballistic at seeing someone whom they believe is really just using the pace car designation as a means to troll others on the road.\u00a0 Words are exchanged, and because Georgia has looser gun rights than abortion rights, ammunition is exchanged next, and we\u2019ve got our top story on My Fox 5 Atlanta for the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n Or my favorite hypothetical, Decatur White Knight C pledges to the pace car program, and although they do god\u2019s work while within city proper, once they\u2019re outside of Decatur, they themselves are driving around like a dick, unleashing all the aggression they suppress while cockblocking motorists on their home turf.\u00a0 Be it through getting into an altercation on their own, or pissed off rager D sees a pace car outside of Decatur and wants to start shit, they get in a massive accident, footage of a demolished car on I-285 is on WSB-TV, but with the City of Decatur pace car sticker still intact and in plain sight.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, Decatur-ites who think it\u2019s their place to be heroes and saviors and enforcers of their fair city\u2019s streets, really are putting their own lives at risk.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty bold of the city to be willing to throw their own citizens into the fire by basically allowing anyone to volunteer, and I just don\u2019t see a long game where this turns out to be successful.<\/span><\/p>\n The intentions are good, but the program doesn\u2019t seem to have been well thought out thoroughly enough, and I don\u2019t have a lot of high hopes for this program not blowing up their face in some fashion(s).\u00a0 And for that, I simply say, oh Decatur.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m sure this will have no negative effects: City of Decatur launches \u201cpace car\u201d program to try to slow down motorists and reduce accidents Let my start off by saying that I\u2019m a fan of Decatur.\u00a0 Decatur is the small town in the big city that has lots of character, good bars and restaurants.\u00a0 The … Continue reading Oh, Decatur, #35<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,100,45,83,143,8,52,10,190,49],"class_list":["post-50060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-owned","tag-traffic","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50062,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060\/revisions\/50062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}