According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the new southbound lanes on US 19/GA 400 between Windward Parkway (Exit 11) and GA 14o/Holcomb Bridge Road (Exit 7) will be open tomorrow (Monday). Please click here to read the article.
For all you "ROADGEEK-CAM!!!" fans out there, I'll get some video footage for y'all as soon as possible. In addition to video, I'll snap some photos as well.
As for the "sign goofs" I found on the southbound side, I'll keep y'all abreast on any happenings relating to that matter.
To the Trivunovics of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada... thanks for being the first from outside the U.S. to request an official "Georgia Road Geek" magnet. I just put it in the mail today. If there are any other readers (especially international readers) of this blog who would like a magnet, then please let me know and I'll mail you one as well.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, tell all your friends about us, and please come back again.
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3 comments:
The new lanes are open and has made the traffic worse in the morning commute. The new lanes only act as entry/exit ramp, so the number of usable lanes remain at 3. So there is 3 lanes in exit 9, 3 after exit 8 as before. The local traffic (before joining 400) must have reduced, but 400 has gotten worse.
OMG, what a waste of tax dollars. There is 46 million (may be 23 mil because the northbound traffic is less) to hate GDOT.
The design of the southbound lanes is seriously flawed. We need a fix to this immediately. There's sufficient space to demand that the lanes be redrawn to accomodate 4 southbound lanes from at least Haynes Br. south. The "fix it" project should be to rework the onramps from Holcomb Br to flow into lane 4 of GA 400 south. Let's pressure the GADOT to do this NOW before they close this project and declare it a huge success. This is a design issue and not the builder's issue. The builder has done a FANTASTIC job at keeping the road moving during construction. I am very impressed at the speed too.
What a complete disaster. The northbound expansion made a noticeable difference.
HOWEVER, I agree 100% with the posts regarding southbound traffic. Rather than making even a small improvement, this work has made my drive (getting on at 10 and traveling all the way to Buckhead) much, much, much worse. Two reasons...first, the design is seriously flawed as noted above. Second, the flow from above Windward likely improved, which just means there is more stress from exit 11 on down. Unless things change, I will be forced to examine an alternate route (P'tree Industrial) as my morning commute from John's Creek to Buckhead (used to be roughly 45 minutes) is now well over an hour.
Also, not sure if anybody noticed, but I suspect the GDOT has paid off the radio traffic reporters. All I've heard is how great the expansion has been and what a difference its made. BS! The report this morning said "18 minutes" from Old Milton to the perimeter. It took me 30 minutes to get from Old Milton to Holcomb Bridge.
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