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This entry was posted on 5/19/2007 10:11 AM and is filed under uncategorized.

On May 4, 2007, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering unanimously approved a new U.S. Highway 29 Alternate. Here is the text from their meeting minutes...

Establishment of a U.S. Alternate Route 29 Beginning at the interchange of present U.S. Route 29 west of the city of College Park, and then extending westerly along South Fulton Parkway and southerly along State Route 154 for 13.44 miles to its junction with present U.S. 29 in the city of Palmetto.

Based on this information, here is how I am envisioning it on Georgia's roadmap (Scan Source: 2006 Georgia Official Highway and Transportation Map)...



Since Georgia likes to assign corresponding state route numbers to all its U.S. and Interstate highways, here are the numbering/renumbering scenarios I envision...

- Number it as an extension of GA 14 Spur (the state route number for the limited-access portion of South Fulton Parkway from US 29/GA 14 to I-285/GA 407).

- Renumber South Fulton Parkway as GA 154 Spur or GA 154 Conn.

- Designate South Fulton Parkway as GA 14 Alternate from US 29/GA 14 to GA 154, and "duplexing" GA 14 Alternate along GA 154 southward back to US 29/GA 14 in Palmetto.

- Assign a brand new state route number to South Fulton Parkway.

If you have any thoughts on this matter, please feel free to share them.

Speaking of corresponding state route numbers for U.S. highways...

Yesterday, after leaving the office, I took Buford Highway (US 23/GA 13) from Clairmont Road (GA 155) up to Ham Radio Outlet (HRO) to pick up a new antenna for my handie-talkie.

From Clairmont Road to I-285, GDOT has replaced the assurance markers, and most were set up with the "GA 13" shield placed above the "US 23" shield. This is not exactly a new practice, as Georgia seems to be "in love" with its state route numbers. Here is a similar setup I found last year on US 27/GA 1 in Chattooga County...



Finally, congrats to fellow ham and North Georgia College alum David, who works at HRO, for passing the Extra-class ham radio license test. (Extra is the highest class available to U.S. ham operators and allows such license holders to operate on all ham frequencies allocated to American hams.) Way to go, David!!!

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    • 5/22/2007 8:51 AM Bryant wrote:
      This is good to hear. I live about two miles away from South Fulton Parkway, just off of Old National Highway/SR 279, and adding the US 29 Alternate along the county-maintained portion would be good.

      I like your ideas. I like the one of continuing the SR 14 Spur, alongside the US 29 Alternate.
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    • 5/28/2007 8:05 AM XOZ wrote:
      I am all over this South Fulton Parkway thing...I've waited years for it. It's actually more involved than you think. Part, possibly all of GA 70 north of the Parkway will be decommissioned and the part of the parkway that does not include U.S. 29 Alt will be designated as GA 70. This means that most likely Fulton Industrial and definitely the two-lane part west of GA 154 will be decommissioned to create the mileage necessary to swap for this road.

      Also, if the rest of the parkway becomes GA 70, then if any of GA 70 is retained south of the parkway, it will have to get a new number as well as GA 154 in Coweta County given that the overlap will be eliminated, though I actually have my doubts of anything as drastic for 154 or that any part of GA 70 will be retained.

      From what information I got from that article, I can't really tell what is going to happen to it. I just hope that GDOT will end their long drought of refusing to assign new state route numbers if they are really doing something this drastic. 389-399 are still available, and I wish quite frankly that they'd replace some of these banner routes with those and the upper 400 series route numbers (450-499). What's wrong with renumbering GA 120 Connector in Paulding to GA 472, it's original county road number?
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    • 5/29/2007 7:49 PM Bryant wrote:
      Well, I looked on wikipedia (not a too reliable source, but anyway...), and the portion west of Roosevelt Highway (US 29/SR 14) to Cascade-Palmetto Highway (SR 154) is to be designated the US 29 Alternate/SR 14 Alternate. The portion west of SR 154 is to be designated as SR 70, but this is still speculation.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_Route_14_Spur
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