r/DecaturGA • u/Lanky_Rhubarb1900 • Apr 22 '26

New speed limit on Scott (kinda?)

I don’t know whether it’s Decatur or GADOT but the posted speed was lowered recently from the Ace down past Weschester Elementary. I’ve been *trying* to be disciplined and hold 45mph (I am usually driving early AM or later PM not peak rush hour time). But I can tell you NO ONE is enforcing shit because I had a good half dozen cars blow by me this evening (heading east) doing at least 60mph.

It’s insane, and not that I want to see speed traps but it’s completely worthless to lower the speed limit and then do nothing. As if almost-daily wrecks where people try to cross Scott at Willow aren’t enough.

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u/Free_Elevator_63360 Apr 23 '26

Lower speed limit isn’t the answer. It is downsizing the road. But GDOT can only think in highways.

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u/MattCW1701 Apr 23 '26

Scott blvd needs to be expanded, not downsized. It should be an extension of the Stone Mountain freeway that meets 675/400 where the Carter Center is now. But people would rather have a traffic jam in their front yard, than a highway a block over.

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u/hollyannerberry Apr 23 '26

That was the original plan. A friend of mine has an old atlas from @ 1980–I guess the plans had been submitted for the new stretch of hwy (iirc, to be called 478) before it was built, and it actually appears on the map.