Underserved neighborhoods could see Nissans slow down and Netflix speed up if the Athens-Clarke County Commission moves forward with a proposed municipal broadband service and changes to neighborhood traffic management. The commission approved changes to the neighborhood traffic management program as recently as 2021, but those changes resulted in a flood of applications that have taxed ACC Transportation and Public Works staff, traffic engineer Tim Griffeth told commissioners at a Feb. 14 work session. And there isn’t enough money to fulfill most of the requests, with $303,000 currently available and another $1 million over five years coming from TSPLOST 2023, the voter-approved sales tax for transportation. That’s enough to cover about three projects this year and another one or two […]