Tharun Vikash Babu Chitra

Professor Tiffany Mayet Smith

English 1101

October 1, 2016

Piedmont Avenue

On Piedmont avenue, there are many cars going in one direction, because this is a one-way street. The one-way street  is specifically designed to keep the students safe. Many cars are passing continuously and there is heavy traffic  since the road is located on the Georgia State University (GSU) campus. The road is divided into 3 lanes for the vehicles and there is a sidewalk on both the sides of the road for the people to walk safely. There are many people moving continuously on this road. The roads are maintained properly. There is no trash on the road and it was newly painted. The potholes were fixed well. There is a traffic signal near every corner of the road and the symbol of GSU is painted in the road on all the crosswalks to show the people that this is a school zone. Most of them are wearing bags. It was very cold that time so, some were wearing jackets and sweatshirts.

There are huge buildings on the both side of the road. These buildings include the Citizens Trust Bank building, GSU student alumni center and GSU dorms such as Piedmont central, University Commons, Piedmont North, and Patton hall. These are the main buildings on this road. There is also a small park next to the Citizen trust bank’s parking deck. There are also other resident buildings which were left for commercial purpose on the first two floors. Almost all these buildings have a parking lot and there are some buildings which were left for parking alone. This road is a perfect place which has both commercial and residential buildings. You can see the Capital of Georgia and the famous Grady hospital from this road. There is also one parking deck for the Grady hospital. Next to that is the Piedmont entrance for the hospital. Atlanta Children’s Health Care is located in this road opposite of Patton hall.

There is a tree after every 10 feet and street lights are fixed every 20 feet on both the sides of the road. There is also the electrical post after every 30 feet.  The trees are watered every day by the sprinklers which are placed near the bottom of every tree. The trash cans were also kept near all the buildings painted with the GSU symbol again showing that this is a School zone. This road is always busy. There are many people crossing this road every day. Most of them are students because some were wearing Panther card around their neck and some had it in their hands. There are many dorms located on this street. So many people take this way to their classes. A group of people was sitting near the Citizens Trust Bank and chatting amongst themselves. They were so loud that I could hear them even when I was 100m away. There was another group near the park. They weren’t making much noise. They were silently smoking. Opposite to them, a couple was romancing. This is a place which is always occupied.