Aerial Road Photo - Georgia-Florida Pkwy
This entry was posted on 2/16/2007 9:10 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Recently, I downloaded and installed
Google Earth and spent quite a while just virtually zooming all over the place.
Since I now have Google Earth, I decided to use it to capture some aerial road photos around the state (particularly major interchanges) and will eventually compile them onto a webpage.
While zooming in on Thomasville and Thomas County, I stumbled upon the intersection of US 19/GA 3/300 (Georgia-Florida Parkway) and Old Monticello Road (US 19's original route into downtown Thomasville). Here is the photo I captured...
What really intrigued me was the roundabout that exists at this particular intersection. Georgia has very few roundabouts, and what few that do exist tend to be around small town squares such as the one surrounding the old courthouse and gold museum in downtown Dahlonega.
The Georgia-Florida Parkway (GA 300) is a four-lane mostly-divided corridor that runs from I-75 (Exit 99) just south of Cordele to Albany, then joins US 19/GA 3 along the rest of its journey to Camilla, Thomasville, and the Florida state line. Once in Florida, US 19 becomes the Florida-Georgia Parkway as it makes it way south to US 27 in Capps. (Georgia counties traversed: Crisp, Worth, Dougherty, Mitchell, and Thomas).
In other Georgia road news, the Georgia DOT announced that 2 men have been arrested in connection with the graffiti sprayed on overhead signs along the Downtown Connector (I-75/85). Please click here to read the article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading and please visit often.
