Today, Mary and I were at Creekside United Methodist Church where she set up a booth to sell her custom-made jewelery at their annual Chicken Barbecue and Holiday Gift and Craft Fair.

After she was set up, I decided to go right up the road, Peachtree Parkway (GA 141), to the new (and soon to be closed) Circuit City to take advantage of their "going out of business" sale.

About an hour later, I came back to Creekside to show Mary the "his and hers"  (pink for her and blue for me) Samsung 8.1 megapixel digital cameras I bought, plus a digital photo frame and a Christmas gift for my parents.

We've both wanted to get new cameras for a while and this was a great time to do so as far as I was concerned.

Since Creekside was on a road being widened, I decided to do some brief "roadgeeking" in front of the church and snap a few shots of the construction for posterity.

The first photo is the new GA 141 southbound carriageway looking toward Ronald Reagan Boulevard...



The next photo shows the same new carriageway as I am looking southbound...



Here's the brief description of the project taken from Georgia DOT's TREX website...

Project involves the widening and reconstruction of 6.21 miles of SR 141 to provide a multilane roadway from 0.6 miles north of the Fulton/Forsyth County Line (McGinnis Ferry Road - Milepost 0.6) extending northerly to the intersection of SR 9 and SR 141 - Milepost 6.8. The proposed improvements involve widening and reconstructing the existing two lane rural highway to a four lane divided highway. Two travel lanes in each direction with 13.6m(44') grassed median.The median will transition to a 6.0m (20') raised median at end of project. The bridge over SR 400 will be widened to accommodate the additional through lanes and turning lanes. The design speed for the project is 55MPH(90km/h) and 45MPH(70 km/h). (COMMENT: This project was apparently designed during the 1990s when state DOTs were doing their designs in metric units. After 1999, state DOTs were no longer mandated to use metric and GDOT decided to design subsequent projects in traditional English units of miles, feet, etc.)

The projected completion date is July 30, 2009, and once completed, will make GA 141 a multilane road from its southern terminus at Roswell Road (US 19/GA 9) in Buckhead to GA 9 in Forsyth County.

At the northern end of GA 141, the road becomes Bethelview Road, a Forsyth County-maintained road that ends at GA 20 just west of Cumming. There are plans to widen Bethelview for its entire length and I've thought that perhaps it could be designated by GDOT as GA 141, thus extending GA 141 up to GA 20 just as it was in 1952 when it "multiplexed" with southbound GA 9 (then-US 19/GA 9) to Post Road (which is currently GA 371).  (SOURCE OF HISTORICAL INFO: Peach State Roads GA 141 website.)

For more information and documentation on the current GA 141 widening project, go to to the GDOT TREX website and look up Project #121980.

Finally, here's a picture I took of Mary at her booth selling her jewelry...



That's it for now. Thanks for reading and please come back again.

        

 

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