For the past 2 years, the Georgia DOT (GDOT) has been working on widening GA 20 between Lawrenceville and Loganville.

Currently, most of GA 20 in Gwinnett County between the Chattahoochee River and Lawrenceville has been widened. Most of it is a 4-lane divided highway and the part between downtown Lawrenceville to just north of GA 316 is 4-lanes with a middle left-turn lane.

The Grayson Highway portion of GA 20 from just south of Downtown Lawrenceville to Plantation Boulevard is 4-lanes with a middle left-turn lane.

From Plantation Boulevard to the intersection with Cooper and Ozora Roads just southeast of Grayson, GDOT is widening GA 20 to a 4-lane divided highway with a 20' curbed grassy median. As of now, the widening has been completed from Plantation to a point between Rosebud Road and GA 84 (Grayson Parkway) in Grayson.

Having traveled that stretch of highway several times to go see family in that part of Gwinnett, I can tell you that, before the widening was started, traffic on the woefully inadequate 2-lane GA 20 was terrible even on a Saturday or Sunday. For example, to travel from Sugarloaf Parkway to Grayson, it should've only taken 5 minutes or less. However, traffic volumes were so bad, it took us at least 20 minutes to travel that short stretch. Now that the widening has been completed into Grayson, I already see some improvement in terms of weekend volumes. Hats off to GDOT for "gittin' 'er done". 

The remaining section from Grayson to the 4-way intersection with Cooper and Ozora Roads looks like it is at least halfway completed and I look forward to traveling that particuar stretch once its done.

Eventually, GA 20 will become a 4-lane corridor from I-575 in Canton to I-20 in Conyers. One of the future plans along this stretch is to build a 4-lane by-pass just south of Cumming, starting at a point just west of US 19/GA 400 and ending just east of Post Road in Forsyth County. Since traffic volumes between Canton and Conyers have been increasing, and with an increase in traffic accidents along the Canton-to-Cumming stretch, this is truly a project that I believe GDOT is justified in spending our state and federal taxpayer monies to improve.

For more information from GDOT about the GA 20 widening between Lawrenceville and Loganville, please click here.

That's it for now. Thanks for reading, please come back again, and have a great weekend.

 

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