Jackson Jambalaya

I've worked DT for the past 30 years, no one, including me, has paid attention to the Roach/Pascagoula light during that time.

It would have been much easier to just list the traffic signals that work.

I wonder if we can get Ted Henifin to open a traffic light repair department? JXN Water + Sewer + Traffic Light.

Thx JJ for status updates on traffic lights. A stampede can threaten when multiple lanes in all directions revert to blinking light chaos where "whose turn is it" can affect as many as 8 or more confused drivers at once.

Even working intersections are dangerous in Jackson with light and stop sign running such a popular sport.

We need heavy metal safari jeeps with cattle guards front and back to resist all the angry wildebeasts in Jackson.

My favorite is the disco light at Pearl ST. and State St. It's been blinking random party sequences for a year or better.

Another failure of the Chockway Lubamba administration.
Jackson is a black hole in Mississippi.
Not talking in a racial manner.
Talking in a astronomy (outer space) manner where a black hole sucks!

Shout out to all the citizens who report broken traffic lights to the City, as how else would the city know?

Wait...Jackson has stoplights?

Capitol Police was working the heck out of that light on Ellis Ave a couple weeks ago. You know those folks hadn't seen any traffic enforcement in that area in years.

They aren't obeyed anyway in Jackson.

I see runners at Ridgewood Rd intersections with Plantation Blvd / Woodfield Dr at least 2 - 3 three times per week.

Must be too close to the M Bar. Might impact the customer base right Mr. Lumumba?

From my experiences in Jackson, no one stops at the red lights anyway. They fly through those things like it is nothing.

What is the problem with the traffic light on the corner of Meadowbrook and the west frontage road? It is currently working but it has gone out multiple times this year. Dangerous intersection.

10:09, thank you! And most of City Hall, including the Mair, has to sit at that light to get to work! At least it's just irritating and not life threatening like many of these are.

All my friends that are still brave enough to work dowtown say they don’t stop at red lights anymore, anyway…. Said if they do, the homeless or drug fumes residents will grab their door and try to get in their vehicle…

If Lumumba gets re-elected then I will have zero sympathy for anyone who still lives there.

Hey 6:51. You’re full of shit. I’ve lived and breathed downtown with my businesses for 42 years with several properties without the experience you describe. Gaslight much?

I just have to think that many of you don't travel much or bothered to learn at all who is responsible for what and how they are funded.

Downtown Jackson has looked the best it's looked in decades as do many areas in Jackson. I see all the homes and businesses that have been remodeled when I drive around Jackson. I see a lot of activity in Fondren and Highland Village again.

At an age over my expected life span, I feel completely safe in Jackson. Of course, I'm not out after midnight nor do I go into poverty stricken areas.

I'm stunned at those of you who go to New Orleans or New York or ANY major city and feel safe but don't feel safe in Jackson. You are foolish because you haven't a prayer of knowing where NOT to be.

Jackson is deprived of funding by not being notified in a timely way so that deadlines are missed and not having enough money to hire adequate staff or have adequate and updated equipment.

But also, here and elsewhere, city officials are mindful of their source of property tax money. It's worse here because property tax is a primary funding source.

So y'all go ahead and vote for poor little rich boy and rich little poor boy . They will get richer and you will get poorer.

It is never good when those with the purse strings dole out money as if fiefdoms were the best form of governance!

At some point, Jackson will need to have more diversity in its administration to turn the city around. Next Mayor election will show if the citizens of Jackson want to turn things around. Otherwise, we need a new capitol city named.