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Traffic plan for Hwy. 85/Jeff Davis scrapped By JOHN MUNFORD A project to improve traffic flow at the intersection of Ga. Highway 85 and north Jeff Davis Drive in Fayetteville is on the backburner now. City Engineer Don Easterbrook recommended that the project be scrapped since Lee Najjar, owner of the Fayetteville Corners shopping center, has said he would only agree to closing a curb cut to the shopping center if he is paid for it. The city council previously asked Easterbrook to see if Najjar would accept another outparcel at the shopping center in exchange for the curb cut, but Najjar said he wasn’t interested in that, Easterbrook said. The Georgia Department of Transportation would require that particular curb cut to be closed for the city’s project to be approved; the shopping center has another entrance at a traffic light just north of the Jeff Davis/Hwy. 85 intersection. Easterbrook also said the project might create a backup problem on Hwy. 85 at the next two traffic lights. Currently, traffic turning right off Jeff Davis onto Hwy. 85 has to wait in the same lane as traffic wanting to go straight onto Ga. Highway 314. A long-term plan for the intersection is in Fayette County’s transportation plan improvements to the entire intersection would be considered at that time, Easterbrook said. Council took no official action on Easterbrook’s report.
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