A new plan to add a median on 10th Street was approved last Monday at the Local School Council meeting.The proposed median is intended to ameliorate to the disorganized traffic flow caused by Grady’s 10th Street parking lot by forcing people to turn right out of the Grady parking lot. The plan was approved by Joshuah Mello, assistant director of the City of Atlanta department of planning. Mello works specifically with transportation and planning issues around Atlanta.
Assistant principal David Propst, a supporter of the plan, touted the proposal’s merits.
“Students will have to go right when they leave Grady,” Propst said. “It will create a better traffic flow.”
Propst said workers will begin building the median sometime in the spring of next year. To let students into the parking lot, there will be a short break in the median. Officer Denson, or another police officer, will still be at the entrance to the parking lot during the busiest times of the school day. Once drivers leave the Grady parking lot, they will be allowed to turn either right or left onto Monroe Drive.
Other plans regarding Grady’s traffic flow, such as Grady buses dropping students off in the 10th Street parking lot, have not yet been approved by the Department of Planning.
“All this stuff going on is just recommendations,” Propst said. “The right lane was the only thing approved by the Department of Planning.”