Georgia

[afguy]

The purpose of this study is to document and determine the need for an potential extension of SR 400 from its current terminus at SR 60/SR 115 in Dahlonega in Lumpkin County to the Cleveland Bypass in White County. Georgia DOT has partnered with Lumpkin and White counties to review methods to increase accessibility and ease of travel within the area while addressing safety and geometric concerns along the SR 115 corridor.

SR 400 Extension Study

[Gnutella]

The purpose of this study is to document and determine the need for an potential extension of SR 400 from its current terminus at SR 60/SR 115 in Dahlonega in Lumpkin County to the Cleveland Bypass in White County. Georgia DOT has partnered with Lumpkin and White counties to review methods to increase accessibility and ease of travel within the area while addressing safety and geometric concerns along the SR 115 corridor.

SR 400 Extension Study

GDOT needs to add interchanges up to GA 53 in Dawsonville first, and any northward extension should be planned in conjunction with an interchange at U.S. 19 and GA 60 near Dahlonega.

[Finrod]

The purpose of this study is to document and determine the need for an potential extension of SR 400 from its current terminus at SR 60/SR 115 in Dahlonega in Lumpkin County to the Cleveland Bypass in White County. Georgia DOT has partnered with Lumpkin and White counties to review methods to increase accessibility and ease of travel within the area while addressing safety and geometric concerns along the SR 115 corridor.

SR 400 Extension Study

GDOT needs to add interchanges up to GA 53 in Dawsonville first, and any northward extension should be planned in conjunction with an interchange at U.S. 19 and GA 60 near Dahlonega.

Considering the speed at which they're adding interchanges on GA 316, they'll finish that about 2080 or so.

[csw]

Does anyone know when Georgia stopped using demountable copy on guide signs, or if it was ever a regular spec at all?

[bing101]

Freewayjim does a tour of Atlanta and yes its because of shelter in place orders due to the light traffic

[Tomahawkin]

Thanks for posting this. I hope more people follow Freeway Jim on YouTube

[NE2]

Thanks for posting this. I hope more people follow Freeway Jim on YouTube

Arse.

[roadman65]

Is Georgia Highway 110 one whole route, or is it in considered to be two disjointed segments?  There are no signs on US 17 to show continuity and both segments are signs E-W but opposing each other.  If you head east on GA 110 from GA 40, you end at US 17 in Woodbine.  Assume it concurs with US 17 North to where it branches off to US 82, it is now signed west and not east like before.

So being that GDOT has no problem signing state routes with US routes and does not in Camden County, then I assume its two segments but one route.

[Eth]

Is Georgia Highway 110 one whole route, or is it in considered to be two disjointed segments?  There are no signs on US 17 to show continuity and both segments are signs E-W but opposing each other.  If you head east on GA 110 from GA 40, you end at US 17 in Woodbine.  Assume it concurs with US 17 North to where it branches off to US 82, it is now signed west and not east like before.

So being that GDOT has no problem signing state routes with US routes and does not in Camden County, then I assume its two segments but one route.

GDOT's official Camden County map from 2019 shows GA 110 as continuous along US 17/GA 25. Certainly odd that it isn't signed that way in the field, though.

As far as I know, the state has only three non-continuous routes: GA 28 (joined by SC 28), GA 94 (joined by one of the segments of FL 2), and GA 177 (gap through the Okefenokee Swamp).

[roadman65]

I see Folkston holds a record of most signed routes on one roadway! The totem pole on SR 23 & 121 at US 1, 23, & 301 with both SR 4 &15 is quite impressive.

[Gnutella]

GA 316 UPDATES

There's finally some movement on the GA 81 interchange again. They've laid down the rest of the concrete for the westbound off-ramp, and they've begun laying down concrete for the eastbound on-ramp. I hope this interchange opens soon. It's taken much longer than I figured it'd take.

The Harbins Road intersection has been temporarily aligned east of its former alignment, and progress seems to be rapid. They're already constructing the overpass piers and retaining wall on the eastbound side of GA 316. There also appears to be work underway to tie the eastern Sugarloaf Parkway interchange into the Harbins Road interchange, which is good, given the spacing.

A few months ago, I took a drive down Patrick Mill Road in western Barrow County and noticed that construction has begun on a segment of the West Winder Bypass. Judging by satellite images, it appears that the segment of the bypass from the historic Carlyle-Blakey Farm over the CSX Railroad tracks to the point where it joins the existing Patrick Mill Road alignment is now under construction, and trees are being cleared along the segment of Patrick Mill Road from the bypass construction site to a point about a quarter of a mile north of GA 316.

I thought the GA 11 interchange would be the next to begin, but to my surprise, they're preparing the GA 53 interchange now. Trees have been cleared where the interchange footprint will be. I'm not sure what the holdup is for GA 11, but I hope construction commences there soon, given that it's a much worse bottleneck than GA 53 has ever been.

With the GA 81 interchange closer to opening, I really hope that a Carl-Bethlehem Road overpass becomes a higher priority, since the delays on GA 316 will just shift from GA 81 to Carl-Bethlehem Road. With the GA 81 and Harbins Road bypasses currently under construction, and the West Winder Bypass interchange under construction soon, a Carl-Bethlehem Road overpass would make Kilcrease Road the only signalized intersection on GA 316 between Lawrenceville Highway and GA 11.

Also, for the sake of safety, I hope a Harry McCarty Road overpass becomes a higher priority, since it's an un-signalized intersection that's had a significant increase in traffic with the construction of the GA 81 interchange and the commercial development nearby. I fear that a fatal crash at that intersection is imminent.

[roadman65]

I thought these type of signs with the exit numbers inside the panel were all replaced?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50048359948/in/dateposted-public/

I thought the MUTCD requirements made GDOT replace the signs with external tabs aligned to the right.  I guess not then.

[Gnutella]

I thought these type of signs with the exit numbers inside the panel were all replaced?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50048359948/in/dateposted-public/

I thought the MUTCD requirements made GDOT replace the signs with external tabs aligned to the right.  I guess not then.

It's a gradual process.

[Eth]

I thought these type of signs with the exit numbers inside the panel were all replaced?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50048359948/in/dateposted-public/

I thought the MUTCD requirements made GDOT replace the signs with external tabs aligned to the right.  I guess not then.

The replacement process started about 12 years ago, but isn't finished yet. These old-style signs are probably in the minority now, but by no means rare.

[Henry]

I thought these type of signs with the exit numbers inside the panel were all replaced?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50048359948/in/dateposted-public/

I thought the MUTCD requirements made GDOT replace the signs with external tabs aligned to the right.  I guess not then.

The replacement process started about 12 years ago, but isn't finished yet. These old-style signs are probably in the minority now, but by no means rare.

I always loved those signs, because they made GA unique compared to other states in that they were the only ones to use Series D, whereas others used Series E(M), and most recently, Clearview (which the Peach State won't be doing anytime soon, thank goodness).

[D-Dey65]

Do you know what I've noticed on I-95 at Exit 42? No control Cities:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgia_I95nb_Exit_42.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgia_I95sb_Exit_42.jpg

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.2942187,-81.4835733,3a,75y,24.69h,94.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQffIWUyfNDvHQNmuBUAwCw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Really? They can't use Anguilla and Broadfield?

[amroad17]

This interchange has never had control cities on the signs--even when I-95 originally opened through there.  The first time I passed through that area was 1975.  The original sign had an EXIT tab without a number, which was the norm back then as I-95 was not completely finished in Georgia (from the Hardeeville, SC interchange to either US 80 or GA 21 was not opened as well as from US 25/US 341 in Brunswick to GA Conn 25 near Woodbine).  Plus that section was four lanes instead of the eight?!? (why?, it is just a bit odd having eight lanes there) that is there now.

I agree that Broadfield and Darien should be used NB and either Sterling or Anguilla could be used SB.

[roadman65]

Do you know what I've noticed on I-95 at Exit 42? No control Cities:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgia_I95nb_Exit_42.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgia_I95sb_Exit_42.jpg



https://www.google.com/maps/@31.2942187,-81.4835733,3a,75y,24.69h,94.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQffIWUyfNDvHQNmuBUAwCw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Really? They can't use Anguilla and Broadfield?

I posted a pic of that a few weeks ago in this thread.  Yes, Broadfield and even Stirling would work.  Plus the sign is way too big for one shield.  In Florida we have SR 33 in Polk County that has no control cities either, but a sign that fits. 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50052982181/in/album-72157625374926908/

Then the other GA 99 interchange uses Townsend Road over Townsend, which is more strange as Elonia is listed as a town, so why not be consistent.  Plus the latest MUTCD frowns upon cities and street names on one guide sign.https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/5172341292/in/album-72157625374926908/

Also for years the northbound South Newport Exit had only Coastal Hwy. on it yet southbound it always had South Newport.  Again that  is strange, but knowing the history of the freeway construction of I-95 the part from South Newport to Richmond Hill was incomplete and I-95 was completed on both sides so the South Newport was added by the engineers who worked on that part of I-95 in the late 70's while the contract that did I-95 from South Newport to Brunswick thought the Coastal Highway was a good choice for a control city.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/5172341670/in/album-72157625374926908/


Nowadays Coastal Highway is hardly used but the US 17 exit at Richmond Hill still uses it even after the signs were replaced when the freeway was 6 laned in 2002-2003.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/5171740243/in/album-72157625374926908/

[roadman65]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50147156683/in/dateposted-public/
The new mileposts along GA 35 in Tift County are the same as the interstates now.

[D-Dey65]

You know, the overhead sign at Exit 1 on I-95 ought to be replaced by something like this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I-85_North_SC_-_Exit_1_-_SC11_Walhalla_(42397990641).jpg

[roadman65]

The last time I saw it is now a Welcome Center and not a Tourist Info Center.  I-75 still has its one in Lake Park as a Tourist Info Center.

[D-Dey65]

The last time I saw it is now a Welcome Center and not a Tourist Info Center.  I-75 still has its one in Lake Park as a Tourist Info Center.

Gee, I never said the one in St. Mary's, Georgia wasn't a welcome center. I just tried to suggest the existing sign should have a green top with an Exit 1 tab reading "Saint Marys Road."

Hey, what are the going to replace the trees they cleared away with?

[Tomahawkin]

Just saw from GDOTs website that a DDI will be made at SH 20 over interstate 75 in Henry County. That interchange has needed a major overhaul for over 10 years IMO. I Hope this gets started within the next year

[D-Dey65]

Another update on the I-16/I-95 Interchange project. According to a news story on WSAV, instead of building two flyover ramps, GDOT will be a turbine interchange. It will be the first of its kind in Georgia and will be similar to the I-85/I-485 interchange in Charlotte,NC.

Renditions show those plans have slightly changed. Instead of replacing existing ramps with flyover ramps, the construction company -- Reeves Construction Company -- is now building a turbine ramp.

It's the first of its kind in the state of Georgia and a way to reduce costs.

https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/exclusive-important-changes-new-artist-rendition-of-i16-i95-interchange-project/1546291473

Is it just me, or does anybody else think it might cost less money to have embankments for those new ramps, so that GDOT won't have to blow a budget maintaining those big, long bridges?

[architect77]

I thought these type of signs with the exit numbers inside the panel were all replaced?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/50048359948/in/dateposted-public/
I love Georgia big fat lettering on the overheads. Now if we could get them to reembrace cantilevered supports rather than single signs held up on both sides of America's widest freeways. It engineering taken back to the stone ages.
I thought the MUTCD requirements made GDOT replace the signs with external tabs aligned to the right.  I guess not then.

The replacement process started about 12 years ago, but isn't finished yet. These old-style signs are probably in the minority now, but by no means rare.

I always loved those signs, because they made GA unique compared to other states in that they were the only ones to use Series D, whereas others used Series E(M), and most recently, Clearview (which the Peach State won't be doing anytime soon, thank goodness).