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There are also Macon residents who chose to ignore the signs. A pedestrian is shown after continuing through the roadwork in the rain. Photo credit: Angel Colquitt

Pedestrians fatalities in Macon-Bibb

Macon Newsroom Staff
January 28, 2025
An enhanced crosswalk and median was added to Montpelier Avenue to improve pedestrian safety.

Macon-Bibb Works to Address Pedestrian Safety Issues

Domonique King, Center for Collaborative Journalism
April 10, 2024
Peachtree Recovery Services' Vice President Todd Rhoad, second from left, presents a report on pedestrian "hotspots" in Macon to a few members of the Macon-Bibb Pedestrian Safety Review Board who attended the monthly meeting in June 2023.

Five ‘hotspots’ for pedestrian deaths, injuries identified in Bibb County

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 21, 2023
Imogene Patterson peers through the blinds behind the check-in desk at Economy Hotel on Pio Nono. She said she sometimes holds her breath watching some of the hotel guests trying to cross the five lanes of Pio Nono Avenue to get to the Circle K convenience store.

‘I hate to look.’ Deadly stretch of Pio Nono lacks crosswalk, stoplight as pedestrians keep dying

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 13, 2023
Peter Givens stands near the entrance of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 that connects the west an east sides of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The neighborhood was severed in the '60s with the construction of Interstate 75.

GDOT promised better in Pleasant Hill after cutting it in half it with I-75. Has the state kept its word?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 7, 2023
A Bibb County sheriff deputy's car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Macon’s roads are becoming deadlier for pedestrians, but few hit-and-runs are solved

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 17, 2023
Dan Anthony Sims, the Bibb County Board of Education's sole finalist for superintendent, visits students at a Bibb County Elementary School on Monday, April 25, 2022.

2023 Preview – Part 2: School enrollment, building boom, road safety, delayed response times and Eisenhower improvements

The Macon Newsroom has compiled 20 things to look for in 2023 in a 4-part series that will be published this week
Liz Fabian and Laura Corley
December 27, 2022
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 14, 2022
A desire line on Pio Nono Avenue in Macon after it passes under Interstate 75. The spot is one of the most deadly for pedestrians in Macon.

Hit-and-run pedestrian deaths have doubled in Bibb County this year

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 16, 2022
Turning vehicles trap a man in the crosswalk at Spring Street and Riverside Drive as he tries to walk across the busy street.

Road safety concerns, frustrations prompt Macon-Bibb summit with GDOT

Mayor Lester Miller leads local delegation to meet with state transportation officials over pedestrian safety issues
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
August 12, 2022
A man who was hit by a car on Gray Highway was lying in the road for about 25 minutes as he waited for an ambulance, patrol car and fire truck for help.

17 pedestrians died on Bibb County roads in 2021. How long did they wait for help?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 8, 2022
The old Macon welcome sign designed to greet visitors to the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games is now a gateway on Little Richard Penniman Boulevard to the Second Street Corridor entrance to downtown Macon.

Storied Macon welcome sign resurrected for Second Street Corridor

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
December 7, 2020
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