2007 to Bring Some Congestion Relief to State Route 400

Posted Friday, December 22, 2006

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ATLANTA – With 2007 fast approaching, work on State Route 400 is making great progress according to Georgia DOT officials. Even though the final completion date on the widening project between Holcomb Bridge Road and McFarland Road is ten months away, all of the newly constructed lanes could be opened, both northbound and southbound, by February of 2007.

During the last few weeks, contractors have been working on sign footings for overhead sign structures, guardrail and sound walls, as well as the actual placement of the new lane pavement in both directions.

The GA 400 widening is being constructed for the Department by Archer Western Contractors, LTD, at a cost of $47.6 million. In addition to one northbound lane between Holcomb Bridge and Haynes Bridge Road and two northbound lanes between Haynes Bridge and Windward that have already been constructed and are opened, work in the next couple of months will add one northbound lane between Windward Parkway and McFarland Road, and one southbound lane between McFarland and Haynes Bridge. The project also will include the installation of sound barrier walls at several locations and a center median wall. If the weather cooperates and barring any problems, all of the southbound lanes from Windward Parkway to Holcomb Bridge Road should be open by mid January and all lanes northbound and southbound between Windward Parkway and McFarland Road should be opened in February.

Georgia DOT encourages the public to access the Department’s NaviGAtor travel services at its website (www.georgia-navigator.com) for detailed construction, lane closure and traffic incident information; and also to use the site to establish their own “My NaviGAtor” report for personalized, real-time traffic information. The public may also call the Department’s traffic and construction hotline toll free, 24 hours, seven days a week, at (404) 635-6800; or call *DOT on their Verizon or Cingular cellular phones to speak with a Transportation Management Center operator.

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