![]() ![]() The Church Road part of the walk was the most erratic part of this trip by far. This shot is at the bend looking up Church Road. Once again, I don’t yet know who’s installing them, but they seem to wrap the intersection from South Cobb Drive to Church Road. Sidewalks are in progress on the east side of the road leading to Church Road. ![]() For some reason drivers are more attentive at these crosswalks on South Cobb than at Oakdale and Highlands Parkway.įor the most part it’s the same pool of drivers, but something about the layout makes the drivers behave differently at the two intersections. It’s interesting how the courtesy of drivers changes with the intersection engineering. The next shot is the crosswalks across South Cobb Drive. Looking up South Cobb Drive at Highlands Parkway ![]() It might be tricky in terms of auto traffic flow, but it would make it much safer for pedestrians. I’m going to find out who installed this (it’s straddling City of Smyrna and Mableton), and what conditions caused them to choose this location, but it’s a good feature, and I think one should be installed mid-block on Highlands Parkway between Oakdale Road and South Cobb Drive. I tried it out, and the cars actually stopped for me (at least this time). There is a button-activated mid-block pedestrian signal on Oakdale Road near Nickajack Park. However, I will point out one feature that I missed in my previous trips up Oakdale Road. Since I’ve taken you up Oakdale Road a couple of times, I’m going to begin the description at Highlands Parkway and South Cobb Drive. As usual, parts were side-walked and parts weren’t. The distance was about 4 miles (8 miles round-trip). There was nothing on this route as horrifying as the bridge on South Cobb Drive south of the East West Connector that I described in the previous article, but it was no pedestrian-friendly paradise, either. ![]()
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