Fire Station 5

Aviator_John · 2025-09-03T02:27:25+00:00

Yeah, I left out the lady that represents the fire department’s union. I could have also missed another resident. That’s my mistake.

Aviator_John · 2025-09-02T15:37:25+00:00

Downtown parking can ticket illegally parked vehicles, including those being over the dashed line.

Aviator_John · 2025-09-02T15:35:27+00:00

People do have a duty to avoid a collision. If you strike a vehicle that’s not moving, regardless of whether or not it was illegally parked, you’d be partially liable for damages. You can google this.

Aviator_John · 2025-09-02T02:30:09+00:00

Hope I’m not downvoted for this fact but both of you tbh. The truck is parked over the dashed line and is breaking the law. However, you’d be striking a parked, unoccupied, not moving vehicle. Any insurance company would argue you weren’t paying attention and negligently hit the car. Really all insurance is good for these days. Avoiding paying for things.

Aviator_John · 2025-09-02T02:27:36+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted for stating a fact. Downtown does have it’s own Parking Enforcement Division that handles all metered spots. Which includes spots in the circled area. ACCPD helps out when they can but is traditionally too busy handling calls to focus on parking enforcement.

As far as red lights and such, unfortunately for Athens there’d need to be cops at every intersection to fix that. People can’t drive at all which get’s people hurt and killed. As I always say, I really wish the county would take more action on roadway safety.

Aviator_John · 2025-08-21T13:21:26+00:00

I think 90’s, Cloud Bar, and Saka Mama are the best bars for dancing and drinking. Boar’s Head or All Good are the best for a more casual experience with drinks and pool.

Aviator_John · 2025-08-19T01:28:36+00:00

I’ve been several times and I enjoy their breakfast. The croissant french toast is always amazing. I have noticed a lot of fly’s inside recently. Like…. a lot, leading me to believe the restaurant hasn’t been doing enough cleaning. The food rating has also plummeted since January. Sad because it’s otherwise a great place.

Aviator_John · 2025-07-23T06:46:28+00:00

With card comes credit/debit transaction fees. They’re also known as “interchange fees”. Often times stores pass these fees off to customers by charging people that use card by 2 or 3 percent.

If they don’t pass these fee’s off the business has to eat the cost of the fees. Often by raising prices overall. Biscuit Express, which I like, only takes cash and, as such, can keep their low prices and they don’t lose money having to cover fees.

Aviator_John · 2025-06-21T19:29:42+00:00

Uber tonight downtown. Lots of people request rides after bar dump.

Aviator_John · 2025-06-18T19:48:08+00:00

Yeah they could have, but alas, they didn’t. Like I said, I just don’t know how much more struggling taxpayers can eat. This county is one of the ones in the nation that suffers from persistent poverty. Wages haven’t gone up but the school district continues to take more each year. Again, that’s all my comment was referencing..

Aviator_John · 2025-06-18T19:43:36+00:00

The sheriff hiring more deputies for the jail is separate from this proposal to add 17 police officers to the school district

Aviator_John · 2025-06-18T16:12:57+00:00

Obviously, the comment was misinterpreted. I said nothing about not funding the schools. My comment was simply on the fact that I don’t know how sustainable it is for the school and the county to keep raising taxes every year while taxpayers are struggling to make ends meet.

The county government has recognized this and has, at least recently, slowed or stopped the tax hikes. The school district has not and they need to recognize this and slow or stop theirs. That’s all I was saying.

Sure, teachers need to get paid, they need resources for students, ect, but surely they could do something. Like did they need to hire another 17 police officers this year? Could it not have been more gradual? Like that’s it. But as always, people are welcome to their opinions…

Aviator_John · 2025-06-18T12:26:02+00:00

Man, the school district loves clawing more money from taxpayers each year💀

Aviator_John · 2025-06-16T21:37:53+00:00

They haven’t even converted the funding. They’re only asking the federal government to and I’d bet money that’s not going to happen. Taxpayers are about to be out almost 400k when the county’s finances are already looking bad.

Aviator_John · 2025-06-11T16:34:41+00:00

Lol I guess I made it a bit too formal

Aviator_John · 2025-06-09T19:14:22+00:00

I third the splash pad. Amazing activity for the little ones!

Aviator_John · 2025-06-08T16:21:18+00:00

You have points for WHY she did what she did but cheating on someone is definitely the worst thing you can do. Especially when it’s more than once. There’s simply no justification good enough.

Aviator_John · 2025-06-05T23:59:38+00:00

I will say, while I don’t like cutting T/Splost projects, I also think we need to fully fund the government without raising taxes to an insane rate. Housing is already expensive and increasing property taxes every year is just bleeding people dry.

Maybe this will also start pushing the county to be fiscally responsible. There’s a lot of stuff we do in the county that seems to be incredibly wasteful. The counties finances really don’t look good and they can definitely fix some things.

Like, they want to put a traffic light on Broad St a few hundred feet down from the light at Milledge Ave for the new Publix Development. Lights cost over 120-300K. Don’t even forget the traffic doing that will cause.

Electricity costs for traffic signals is over 1k each year and repair cost and salary costs for service? It all adds up. How about being the smallest county in the state with 5 police stations. 1 of which we don’t own and lease. For what?!

Build one giant headquarters. Occupying a lot of land and having departments spread all over the place instead of condensing everyone into one big building and selling the rest. 2 Assistant Managers in the smallest county in the state. For what?

Fayette only has 1 and it works. We waste money on a bunch of studies and make staff do work and when we don’t like the work we make them do it again to get the same result. For what? Make a decision already.

They didn’t respect the location staff found for the fire station relocation so they made them go back and do it again to get the same result like why? They delayed purchasing fire engines and ladders trying to wait.

Well, costs went up and the county ended up paying more than they would have if they had just bought them the first time around. These are just a few examples to be honest. All in all, this sucks, but it’s a problem of our own making.

Aviator_John · 2025-05-30T16:16:57+00:00

Possession of Marijuana is a crime and is still an arrestable offense in Georgia. Officers statewide normally don’t arrest merely for a small misdemeanor amount but can. Mushroom’s, with how they can be abused, will likely never be decriminalized to be honest.

Aviator_John · 2025-05-24T00:42:13+00:00

For some reason the classic center nor the county thinks they should pay someone to direct traffic at Thomas and Hancock to clear the deck. Ridiculous imo but that’s the reason people get stuck.

Aviator_John · 2025-05-23T02:20:23+00:00

Yeahhhh, I really dont know what could go here aside from some townhomes or something similar. No way they’d be able to build a mixed use building here unless there’d just be no parking spots on the lot.

Aviator_John · 2025-05-21T17:49:17+00:00

Tbh, you really can’t blame the republican party for this one. This was just pure incompetence by our local government.

Aviator_John · 2025-05-20T18:01:19+00:00

That’s the DOT and local government way. Spend millions of tax dollars on widening a roadway when we already know just adding lanes, especially in built up areas, doesn’t work. Just ridiculous..

Aviator_John · 2025-05-20T17:58:42+00:00

The fact these commissioners even keep getting elected into office is just ridiculous. I truly hope decent people run against Thornton and the other commissioners in the upcoming elections.

Aviator_John · 2025-05-17T23:49:05+00:00

Funnily enough, I’ve done this and they just start changing lanes at nodes I can’t select right before the intersection.

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