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Facts Check Quiz:     
Size of Projects , Etc..
 

 
Inquiring Minds Want To Know:
Forest Hill Neighborhood Stakeholders

 
  In "Plain English" - How Wide is the Road Pavement Going to Be if Forest Hill Rd Project is Built?

Macon Telegraph reports that FHR " will be widened to 3 and 4 lanes"


Question 1-3:

1- How wide is the Forest Hill Rd pavement now?  _______(feet)
2- How wide is pavement for 3-lanes section?  _______(feet)
3- How wide for a 4-lane section?  _______(feet)



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Citizens Seek Answers:

Macon Telegraph reports that for FHR:
"The Georgia DOT instructed Moreland-Altobelli to cease ROW acquisitions until after Mediation"



Question:

-  Did Georgia DOT order cessation of ROW acquisition?  _Yes_or_No__

- Who at GDOT has the authority to issue such an order?  _________



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Involved Citizens, such as those pictured below,  usually read the Local Newspapers:
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Property rights are the cornerstone of our Democratic-Republic.

Macon Telegraph reports that for FHR:
" 50% of the required ROW - Right-of-Way property has been aquired"



Question :

- To the nearest 10%, exactly how much ROW property has been purchased?  _______

(Please show your work including Open Records Request results, and telephone numbers and names of sources)
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Macon Telegraph reports that FHR
"...Traffic Counts vary Widely"



-  According to GaDOT data re-published on this page:
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/traffic.htm


- In 3 sentences or less, describe the accurate relationship between the "projected counts" from Moreland-Altobelli and the GDOT "actual counts" of traffic along FHR.
_________________________________________
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(extra credit for use of these words:  steady, stable, flat-line, divergent, surprising, fictional, Houdini, baffling and oops!  :-)



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Macon Telegraph did Not report that FHR was almost saved at a MATS Policy Committee Meeting on 5-31-07



Question:
1-  How close was the vote that day?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 5

- How many votes were from people (positions) who do not live in Macon?  _______

- How many of those votes (people) have since indicated they will never vote against FHR again?  ______



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Bonus Questions !!!

 

  Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 
To: smarshall@macon.com,crichardson@macon.com,pdodson@macontel.com
Subject: FHR and the Xanadu drinking problems



A middle-of-the-road
High School Math Problem

In the City of Nacom, there is a road named Xanadu. 
For generations, Xanadu (X) has always had two-eleven foot wide travel lanes - one in each direction.  But Officials plan to widen and straighten X so they can drive faster.  They want to do this because all their friends and media news sources have convinced them of this image -  Heaven on Earth can be obtained by driving a fast new car on a highway to somewhere. 

Nacom engineers draw up privatized-for-profit plans to widen the two 11 foot lanes to 12 feet each.  They add a 10 foot lane for walking foot traffic.  They also add - a popular feature for Nacom roads - a supersized 14 foot lane for crazy, lazy and random drivers in an aptly named "Suicide Lane" that they place prominently in the very center of the two regular-drivers lanes. 

Since the road's footprint is now more than doubled, it covers the drainage swales (ditches) that are needed to carry stormwater away from the traffic.  So they add another 8 foot lane for water traffic designed as curbs and gutters - then they split this "water lane" and put 4 feet of it on each side of the road.  They also decide to split the 10 foot pedestrian lane in two, and then place it - as sidewalks - beyond the curbs and gutters.

Question:
1. How wide is this Xanadu project planned to be? 
You must use Standard English measurements - ie. feet,  inches, yards. 
(Hint the Nacom Telegraph reports and maintains that the road is 3-4 lanes wide)
a  X=22 (feet)
b 24
c 33
d 44
e 56
f. 138

2. How much greater is the "Road Capacity" of the Xanadu?
a 2   (feet)
b 11
c 33
d 42
e  none
f. Don't know what "Road Capacity " means.


  



Ethics in Reporting Problem

Mary is a citizen-volunteer who sometimes provides information to reporter-Bob at the local newspaper.  One day the Chief sees Bob stick a backscratcher down Mary's shirt, and Mary pulls away and appears angry  - just then, all 3 people notice each other and Chief ducks into a meeting - hoping that Bob and Mary will quit goofing off and get back to focusing on the story at hand.

  Later that day,
Chief gets an email from Mary "Please instruct Bob to keep his hands off of me!". 

Chief forwards this email to Bob who replies "You saw everything that happened.  My hands never touched that woman". 

Does Chief now :
1- reward Bob for his more precise and analytical description of the event?
2- ridicule Mary for her emotional and inaccurate reporting of the event?
3- go to local bar on Xanadu Rd for a drink? 








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