MACON, Ga. — One family in a South Macon neighborhood are asking folks to give them a "brake" when driving in the intersection of Elkan and Thrasher avenues.
They say folks just don't want to obey the two way stop signs there and it's driving them crazy.
13WMAZ’s Jessica Cha went out to see what they had to say.
Everyone talks about speeding on highways, but it happens in neighborhoods too. The Heard family says it has them concerned.
"My name is Fred Heard. I live on Elkan Avenue and the intersection between Elkan and Thrasher is driving me crazy!”
Heard, his wife, and daughter moved into this house three years ago. They say folks don't respect the stop signs.
"You have two stop signs: one on that corner, and one on this corner. They just seem to think that it's there for scenery,” Heard explains.
He says 75% of the drivers drive, or roll, right through the signs and drive well over the 25 miles an hour speed limit.
"Sometimes they go through here 50 miles an hour and I'm just afraid that someday, somebody is going to get hit,” Heard says.
Carla Boone is Heard's daughter.
"They speed from up there, and speed right through,” she says.
Boone says accidents have happened in front of their house.
"One was coming that way, and one was coming this way and just collided.”.
Boone says cars speed at all hours.
"There's kids that play outside. I'm even afraid to let my daughter come out by herself and play in the yard,” she says.
Nigel Floyd– Macon-Bibb's traffic engineer– says people commonly do not obey two way stops.
"They very rarely see any other cars coming,” he explains, “So if you don't see any cars coming when you go through there, you typically do a California roll, and roll right through it.”.
Floyd says he'll reach out to the Heard family and conduct a speed study to help decide if they can install a four way stop, or speed bumps.
However, he says it still might not stop the speeding.
"Only thing we can do is just install the traffic control device. It's up to enforcement or law enforcement to enforce the device,” he says.
Floyd says if you have a traffic problem in your neighborhood, you can contact the Macon-Bibb Traffic Engineering department at 478-621-6660 to request a speed study.
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