GRAYSON, Ga. -- Was it just a coincidence or CBS Atlanta's call for action? A short time after news crews interviewed a Grayson man about 3 to 5 feet of grass growing on the road a landscaping company showed up and chopped it down.

The grass along Chandler Road near Grayson High School had not been cut in months, said Harold Jacob. He knows, because he has been calling Gwinnett County for the same amount of time asking for someone to come out and cut the grass.

Jacob is concerned that a vehicle traveling on Chandler road might lose control jump the curb and strike children walking on the sidewalk.

“What about kids leaving one subdivision to go to the other subdivision, what about kids walking home from school? This sidewalk has grass growing so high that motorists can not even see if someone is on the sidewalk. It’s a death trap and a safety issue that needs to be addressed immediately, “Jacob said.

In a letter addressed to Jacob, the Gwinnett County Department of Transportation wrote that because of budget issues they would be reducing the number of mowing cycles this year from to twice along the shoulders of the road (late spring and late summer).

Kim Conroy, the Deputy Chief of the department, told us it was not a major safety concern when his crews assessed the area.

“We have folks walking all along the roadsides in Gwinnett County, so I am saying that would not in itself been enough to go out and mow all of our roadways because they may have had pedestrian traffic. We’d like to, but we had to focus because of our constraints on the safety issues that we knew about at major intersections,” Conroy said. "I think we did a very good job this year with what we had to work with in identifying with our in house crews and mowing the sight distance restrictions to the best of our ability."

A spokesperson for True Green Landscape told us their records indicate the mowers were scheduled to be in the area of Chandler road where the grass was high.

Jacob is not buying it.

“I think they sent the mowers out after you guys called so you wouldn’t see the grass so high. Thank you to CBS Atlanta news for getting this problem taken care of,” Jacob said.