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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
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
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.

U.S. DOT declines Macon’s proposal to fix one of its deadliest roads – again

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
January 12, 2024
A small fire re-ignited with hand sanitizer as an accelerate warms Conta Price's feet on a 28 degree morning in Macon in late November. Price said depending on who you talk to on the street, you will hear maybe Macon's Salvation Army shelter is open to single adults, or maybe it isn't.

As winter sets in, Macon-Bibb County struggles to shelter homeless people

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 13, 2023
Chiquita Dinkins teaches a unit on photosynthesis to students at Northeast High School in Macon. Dinkins, who was head cheerleader at Northeast as a student in the 1980s, is one of 18 alumni teachers at the school.

6 things to know as Bibb students return to school

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 12, 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
This Macon Transit Authority bus shelter on College Street is among 6 downtown shelters that will feature art installations set to be unveiled May 5, 2023.

Macon Transit Authority halts planned bus fare hike – for now

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 26, 2023
Speed limit review, more street lights coming for pedestrian safety

Speed limit review, more street lights coming for pedestrian safety

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 5, 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
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

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

Mayor Miller: Gray Hwy speed drop, moving log trucks off MLK, proposed taxes for Navicent’s indigent care

Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
November 30, 2022
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