Georgia

[Georgia]

That should be District 1.

[chrislopezz]

I found this intersection at Oakwood-Gainesville, GA. But I'm wondering about the "10" with the traffic signal. It goes by at Mundy Mill Road (SR 53). It starts at SR 211 as "1" and ends at M ever Rd as "13". WHAT ARE THOSE NUMBERS FOR??

[Great Lakes Roads]

I found this intersection at Oakwood-Gainesville, GA. But I'm wondering about the "10" with the traffic signal. It goes by at Mundy Mill Road (SR 53). It starts at SR 211 as "1" and ends at M ever Rd as "13". WHAT ARE THOSE NUMBERS FOR??

It's a southern thing...

[freebrickproductions]

I believe the numbers are used by some cities as a way to reference signalized intersections.

[chrislopezz]

I made these interchange guide signs from the 1990's



GDOT MUTCD Interchange Advance Guide Signs (1990s)
No machine-readable author provided. GeorgiaStateRoute702 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


Compare it to the one below:
2011 signage at Exit 22 showing Exit 24 on Street View. It was replaced on 2013

[Tom958]

Yesterday I learned that the exits for GA 400 are to be renumbered! I assume that means they'll be numbered by mile from 400's southern origin at I-85. Per Google, that'd make I-285 exits 7A and 7B instead of 4A and 4B now. They did the same thing two years ago on GA 316 at the GA 53 interchange, which is numbered 27 for the mileage from 316's origin at I-85-- the earlier GA 81 interchange, only six miles to the west, is exit 5, presumably because it's five miles from the Gwinnett-Barrow county line.

[The Ghostbuster]

If you hear anything more, like when it happens or if it really is a sequential-to-mileage-based it remembering, keep us posted.

[D-Dey65]

I have a question about a site on GA 94 in the Georgia Bend.

Was this tower specifically an old fire tower? Because it sure looks like one. And if so, I'll have to report it to this site;
http://www.firetower.org/lookouts/us/GA

[mariethefoxy]

Question on the business loops, are any of them active anymore? Travelmapping is listing one in Cordele as still active but it has no signage at all, and the rest have just shields on the interstate and really sparse signage otherwise. Were these already decommissioned or somehow hanging on?

[Tom958]

From 2022, but I don't recall seeing it before: Here's a plan for an interchange at GA 316 and the Oconee Connector. No improvements to 316 at Loop 10 are included. Link

[lordsutch]

From 2022, but I don't recall seeing it before: Here's a plan for an interchange at GA 316 and the Oconee Connector. No improvements to 316 at Loop 10 are included. Link

Making Loop 10/316 a full system interchange would be a substantial project; I doubt GDOT will do it unless they pursue Interstate designations for the upgraded GA 316 and Loop 10, which is not GDOT's M.O.

[sprjus4]

From 2022, but I don't recall seeing it before: Here's a plan for an interchange at GA 316 and the Oconee Connector. No improvements to 316 at Loop 10 are included. Link

Making Loop 10/316 a full system interchange would be a substantial project; I doubt GDOT will do it unless they pursue Interstate designations for the upgraded GA 316 and Loop 10, which is not GDOT's M.O.

You don't even necessarily need a full system interchange, just a 2-lane flyover from Loop 10 West to SR 316 West.

The opposite movement is already a free-flowing ramp.

While an interstate designation isn't likely between I-85 and Athens, the entire route ought to be upgraded to full interstate standards... it seems they are closing intersections one by one, slowly, as time progresses, so it will one day get close.

[Great Lakes Roads]

https://ssf-gdot.hub.arcgis.com/

Some of the major projects in Georgia that have been funded:

I-75/I-16 interchange (Segment 6) in Macon
I-16 widening (Phase 1) west of I-95 (Chatham, Effingham, Bryan and Bulloch Counties)
I-75 SB C-D lanes at I-285 interchange
I-75 South Express Lanes Upgrades (Henry County)- convert the reversible express lanes to bi-directional
SR 400 North GA Extension - Phase I (Lumpkin County)
SR 365 Widening North of I-985 (Hall County)

[ElishaGOtis]

I-75 SB C-D lanes at I-285 interchange
I-75 South Express Lanes Upgrades (Henry County)- convert the reversible express lanes to bi-directional
SR 400 North GA Extension - Phase I (Lumpkin County)- freeway extension

Really looking forward to these three, especially the express lane conversion project. Hopefully something similar is down the road for the tollercoaster as well, especially on a design speed perspective.

[SilverMustang2011]

I-75 SB C-D lanes at I-285 interchange
I-75 South Express Lanes Upgrades (Henry County)- convert the reversible express lanes to bi-directional
SR 400 North GA Extension - Phase I (Lumpkin County)- freeway extension

Really looking forward to these three, especially the express lane conversion project. Hopefully something similar is down the road for the tollercoaster as well, especially on a design speed perspective.

The Tollercoaster, at least between I-285 and I-575, is next to a 10-lane stretch of I-75. In my limited experience, traffic backs up there but it's nowhere near as bad/consistent in both directions as backups on the south side, where there's only six purpose lanes. North of I-575 would be good for bi-directional express lanes though, SB I-75 backs up a lot there.

[Jaxrunner]

I-75 around Lake Altoona and Acworth is a huge bottleneck. There are always slowdowns and wrecks on that stretch of highway. In addition, NW Georgia is growing. A lot of industry is being built on the I-75 corridor between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Next year, the Hyundai Battery Plant is opening in Cartersville, bringing 5,000 jobs to the area.

[Georgia Guardrail]

https://ssf-gdot.hub.arcgis.com/

Some of the major projects in Georgia that have been funded:

I-75/I-16 interchange (Segment 6) in Macon
I-16 widening (Phase 1) west of I-95 (Chatham, Effingham, Bryan and Bulloch Counties)
I-75 SB C-D lanes at I-285 interchange
I-75 South Express Lanes Upgrades (Henry County)- convert the reversible express lanes to bi-directional
SR 400 North GA Extension - Phase I (Lumpkin County)- freeway extension
SR 365 Widening North of I-985 (Hall County)

Looks like the SR 400 project in Lumpkin county is not a freeway extension but rather a road widening from 2 to 4 lanes after it crosses the river.

[Finrod]

I-75 around Lake Altoona and Acworth is a huge bottleneck. There are always slowdowns and wrecks on that stretch of highway. In addition, NW Georgia is growing. A lot of industry is being built on the I-75 corridor between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Next year, the Hyundai Battery Plant is opening in Cartersville, bringing 5,000 jobs to the area.

Agreed.  Eventually I-75 should be made more than 3x3 north of Barrett Parkway.  It already needs it.

[roadman65]

Do any Corr Z signs for GA 520 still exist today, or have they become extinct?

[Finrod]

Found this on roughdraftatlanta.com :

DOT Board greenlights two major metro-Atlanta road projects

The State Transportation Board Thursday approved bids for two major projects in metro Atlanta representing almost $6 billion in investment between them.

Board members voted unanimously to greenlight the addition of toll lanes along Georgia 400 in Fulton and Forsyth counties and an overhaul of the heavily congested Interstate 285/I-20 West interchange in Cobb and Fulton counties.

SR400 Peach Partners, a consortium of several road-building and engineering companies, won the bid for the Georgia 400 project at $4.6 billion. A second consortium, Legacy Infrastructure Contractors, won "best value" approval for the I-285/I-20 project with a bid of nearly $1.25 billion.

[D-Dey65]

Something I stumbled upon on GDOT's website: There's a project in the works in Waycross to eliminate a grade crossing of Ossie Davis Parkway, former US 1-23, now Business 1-23, of the CSX railroad headed toward Atlanta. It involves building a half-mile-long viaduct, which seems rather extravagant to me. I'm guessing that there are lengthy blockages there due to CSX operations as opposed to a road-related problem. The project concept report was completed last March, but I haven't found it. It should be in preliminary design now.

http://www.dot.ga.gov/systems/ProjectDocuments/0013539/0013539-Newsletter-WareCounty-July2021.pdf

https://goo.gl/maps/riS8xdf415nDBXYJA

Does anyone have an update on this project?

[Tom958]

https://www.forsythco.com/News/video-sr-369400-overpass-update-nov-18-2024