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Axios
6 days ago
- Business
- Axios
After outcry from businesses, crews working 24/7 to repave Cascade Road
Atlanta Department of Transportation crews are working around the clock to expedite the Cascade Road Complete Street project that business owners say has stymied their operations. Why it matters: Cascade Road is a major thoroughfare on Atlanta's west side, and entrepreneurs say the ongoing road closures required for the project make it difficult for them to maintain customers and their bottom lines. The latest: The around-the-clock resurfacing work, which started Monday, will take place along Cascade between Wills Mill Road and Kingsdale Drive, Atlanta DOT said Monday on X. Weather permitting, two crews are working 12-hour shifts to repave roughly one mile of Cascade Road, with work anticipated to be done by Aug. 25, DOT Commissioner Solomon Caviness told Axios. While the city said the roadway will remain open, drivers can expect some traffic delays, along with noise and light disruptions from nighttime work. What they're saying: The 24/7 schedule will allow Atlanta to remove the detour on the western end of the project area that's drawn the the ire of business owners and residents, Caviness told Axios. "We consider Cascade to be the heart and soul of Southwest Atlanta, and we're excited to finally bring this project to a close and support our local businesses and the local economy," Caviness said. Context: The new schedule comes after weeks of criticism from Cascade Heights business owners and residents, several of whom voiced their concerns at the Aug. 4 City Council meeting. Trinket Lewis, owner of MoreLyfe Juice Co., said when she opened in 2022, her juice shop was averaging more than 900 orders a month. Now, the business is down to around 380 a month. "It's killing MoreLyfe, it's killing the Cascade business district and no one has been held accountable," Lewis said. State of play: A petition has been created, calling on the city to establish an economic recovery fund similar to one that was approved following the 2024 water outage crisis. City Council member Marci Collier Overstreet told Axios she intends to introduce legislation authorizing a fund as early as Monday's City Council meeting. "They are afraid that their business will not return to pre-construction numbers, and so they need help to make sure that everyone will come back," she said, referring to her constituents. Catch up quick: The $33 million Cascade Road Complete Street project began in spring 2022 and installed improvements along a roughly two-mile stretch, including resurfacing and restriping the road, adding sidewalks and bike lanes and upgrading traffic signals. The city also minimized the width of the travel lanes and reduced the speed limit to 25 miles per hour to get vehicles to slow down, Caviness told Axios. What we're watching: Once the resurfacing work is done, the city will tackle "punch list" items like electrical work, lighting improvements and signage, Caviness said.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Greensboro woman dies after car goes off I-40 East on-ramp, hits tree, police say
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A woman died on Tuesday after a car she was driving crashed into a tree off the I-40 East on-ramp, according to a Greensboro Police Department news release. Around 12:14 a.m., Greensboro officers, Greensboro firefighters and Guilford County EMS responded to the on-ramp of I-40 East from West Wendover Avenue when they were told about a vehicle that had crashed. Erica Trenise Caviness, 38, of Greensboro, was driving a silver Nissan Sentra on the on-ramp of I-40 East when her car ran off the right side of the road. The car then went down an embankment and hit a tree. Caviness was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she died. The passenger was also taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Metro
01-05-2025
- Metro
Lorry spills 8,000,000 coins onto highway causing painstaking 14-hour pickup
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video About eight million dimes totaling $800,000 spilled from a lorry onto a highway and caused a 14-hour pickup and cleanup effort. An 18-wheeler flipped on Highway 287 near Alvord High School and scattered the loose coins around 5.30am on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The truck rolled on its side after the driver veered off the highway and overcorrected, the department stated. The driver and a passenger were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and have been released. It was not immediately known why the lorry was carrying so many dimes. Video recorded by FOX 4's SKY 4 showed a worker sitting on the side of the road picking dimes off the ground. Four other workers, three wearing high visibility clothing, swept the roadway using brooms and shovels. Other workers used a vacuum truck to suck coins from dirt and greenery along the highway. United States Armored Company workers assisted in the cleanup operation. The inside of the lorry appeared mostly empty, except for some lingering coins. 'The funniest part to me was that they picked up the dimes using the vacuum trucks that are used to suck out sewage and water and stuff like that,' Alvord Mayor Caleb Caviness told The New York Times. It was not until around 7.30pm that the highway reopened. By Wednesday afternoon, most of the dimes were likely collected and the rest of them were washed away by rain that amounted to four inches and caused minor flooding in town, said Caviness. The mayor said the rumor in town was that $8million in dimes had dropped, and that flashing lights from their reflection were visible. More Trending 'We were joking around that the city of Alvord would be metal detecting,' said Caviness, but added that a herd of people did not actually go out there. Where the lorry was heading was not clear. Alvord is about 75 miles northwest of Dallas. It happened more than two-and-a-half years after a lorry overturned and spilled more than 150,000 tomatoes onto Interstate 80 in Vacaville, California. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Bride's pain after husband killed himself then sent flowers from beyond grave MORE: Everything we know about the US and Ukraine minerals deal MORE: High school lacrosse players 'abducted at gunpoint as part of hazing prank'
