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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
Janice McCrary uses the new medianettes on Gray Highway one sweltering afternoon in August 2024. The 59-year-old lives in an apartment at McAfee Towers and was on the way back from eating lunch at Dairy Queen.

Macon-Bibb County gets millions to fix one of its deadliest roads

U.S. DOT grants $5.6 million for Gray Highway safety improvements
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
September 9, 2024
Weston Stroud started working as Macon-Bibb County's transportation safety manager on Jan. 3, 2024.

‘I want to see Macon do better,’ county’s new traffic safety manager says

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 22, 2024
The future "High Note" Fixed Base Operation at Middle Georgia Regional Airport will be the only FBO in the world shaped like a guitar, visible from the air, Mayor Lester Miller said.

2024 Preview – Part 3: Guitar-shaped airport, new plan to attract business, pedestrian safety challenges and the fate of state charter schools

The Macon Newsroom compiled 20 things to look for in 2024 in a 4-part series that will be published between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow and Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
January 2, 2024
Bibb County School Board President Juawn Jackson.

Weapons detection equipment coming to all Bibb County public schools

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 15, 2023
A screenshot from Bibb County School District's new anonymous web portal for tips regarding student safety.

Anonymous Tips Now Accepted by Bibb County School District

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 5, 2023
A man crosses Spring Street in Macon between lights at Riverside Drive and Interstate 16 in 2020.

State plans to make one of Macon’s deadliest roads safer for pedestrians

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 23, 2023
Mika Shills crosses Spring Street in Macon with the red light going her way by about 20 yards from the crosswalk a few hours after another pedestrian was hit and killed near the same spot. Shills is careful about crossing Macon roadways on foot but says nowhere is really safe to do it. "They'll speed up and try to hit you out here," she said.

Macon wants to eliminate fatal crashes by 2040. Here’s the first step toward that goal.

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 19, 2023
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
Coroner Leon Jones said Pio Nono Avenue is one of the deadliest roads in Georgia and likely the deadliest road in Macon.

Macon-Bibb County Pedestrian Safety Review Board responsibilities outsourced to private company

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 23, 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
Henry Young III, 64, knows well how deadly Pio Nono Avenue can be for people on foot. He says lowering the speed limit could help because, "they treat this road here just like a racetrack."

Macon’s deadliest streets: Two roommates die months apart crossing same busy road

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 31, 2023
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