Zebulon Road
The five-laning of Zebulon Road has long since been completed. The construction taking place out there did indicate improvement was needed to the road. Residents questioned whether five-laning was overbuilding the road however. Sources from planning and zoning tell us that Home Depot and Walmart would like to build another stores off Zebulon and he tells us if this happens then the capacity of the current road will be reached in less than five years. (Update: See "Shopping Center plans link below.) Five lanes won't be enough! To rebuild Zebulon Road in less than five years is not a very good testimony to planning.
When the Georgia DOT met with the Macon Telegraph editorial board, they revealed a new plan to place a median down Zebulon Road. Voters did not plan on a median. To add a median now is evidence of either deception or incompetency . . . maybe both. If they end up tearing up a road they just finished building it is a huge waste of taxpayer money. Why didn't engineers know a median would be needed and indicate it in the plans so people could know exactly what they were getting? Did they know a five lane road with a median would have been hard to sell to the public? Bibb County Engineer Bob Fountain's assurances that wider roads would not encourage faster traffic have misled residents along Zebulon. See Zebulon Road resident Ed Corson's editorial in the Macon Telegraph. Residents currently have no assurances that a wider road is not soon coming, nor can they depend on any plan to know exactly where and when the "improvements" will end. Planning and Zoning/Road Improvement Program should immediately tell residents what is planned for their road, why a median is needed and why it was not so indicated on earlier plans, and when they can depend on an end to construction. Then stick to it. We wonder if we would have had these problems if Walter Kulash had been invited to review this project.
Shopping Center plans mean 29,000 cars per day on Zebulon Road