The New GA 400 Signs Are Here!!!

Fellow road enthusiasts, here is the official “Georgia Road Geek” debut of some of the brand new signage the Georgia DOT has recently placed along US 19/GA 400.

First, the new BGS gantry signs for Abernathy Road (Exits 5A-B) that replaced the old fiberglass ones:

To see what the old ones looked like, please click here for the picture from the AARoads Georgia Gateway website.

Next, here’s a brand new BGS gantry for GA 140 (Exits 7A-B):

Here's one of the new large shield sets, this one located on the northbound side just past the Mansell Road exit (Exit 8):

Finally, as promised, here’s the infamous erroneous Roswell/Dahlonega distance sign as per my prior GA 400-related blogs:



Now that I’m thinking about it, perhaps GDOT is secretly trying to metricate us here in Georgia when they put “Roswell 9”, since 9 kilometers is approximately 5 miles. :)

To see what the old Roswell/Dahlonega distance sign looked like, please click here for the picture from AARoads Georgia Gateway website.

In other “Georgia Road Geek” news, here’s a picture I took while stuck in traffic on GA 9 (pre-1981 US 19) near the intersection of McFarland Road in Forsyth County:



This is indicative of the bottleneck that always occurs on this section of GA 9 during rush hour.

Forsyth County widened McFarland Road from 2 to 4-lanes divided with a grassy median from here to its other end at McGinnis Ferry Road (the Fulton/Forsyth County line). Both GA 9 and McGinnis Ferry are 2-lane roads which were never designed to carry near as much traffic as it does now. However, the Georgia DOT just recently redesigned the US 19/GA 400 interchange with McFarland (Exits 12A-B North, Exit 12 South). As soon as I can, I’ll get McFarland Road photos for y’all to see, but if you have any to share, then please e-mail it to steve#georgiaroadgeek.com and feature them in a future blog (with due credit to the photographer, of course).

That’s all for now. Thanks for visiting and please come back soon.