Residents will soon be making an extra stop at Tiger Trail
and Ga. Highway 54. City officials expect the new traffic light to be installed
within the next month. Photo/Beth Snipes.
3 more stoplights
on way for Hwy 54W in Fayetteville
More traffic signals are on the way for the western segment of Ga. Highway
54 in downtown Fayetteville.
Tiger Trail will get two of the signals: one where it intersects with
Lanier Avenue with westbound traffic and one where it intersects with
eastbound traffic on Stonewall Avenue. A third light will be added further
west on Hwy. 54 at the intersection that serves the Magnolia Park office
complex and the new Villages at LaFayette Park subdivision.
Fayetteville City Engineer Don Easterbrook said the signals should be
installed within the next month.
“It provides the best access, we think, for getting in and out
of that area,” Easterbrook said of the plan for the new signals.
The traffic lights on Tiger Trail are expected to improve the flow of
traffic from the nearby Fayette County High School.
All three of the new traffic signals will be synchronized on the system
that controls traffic lights on Hwy. 54 from Jeff Davis to Grady Avenue,
Easterbrook said. The idea is to keep traffic moving as much as possible
on Hwy. 54, he noted.
The traffic signals will be paid for by the developer of the Villages
at LaFayette Park subdivision, which was one of the city’s requirements,
Easterbrook said. The city will kick in some money to purchase the masts
for the signals to be mounted on — instead of having the signals
hang from the cable wire, Easterbrook said.
The signals will be needed in the future as the Villages at LaFayette
Park — which includes residential, office and commercial uses — develops
in the future, Easterbrook said.
The city is also trying to convince Georgia Department of Transportation
officials to approve a traffic signal for Ga. Highway 85 (Glynn Street)
and LaFayette Avenue, which runs by the old Fayette County High School,
Easterbrook said. That signal would allow vehicles to turn left to head
north on Hwy. 85, thus avoiding the often-clogged intersection of Hwy.
54 (Stonewall Avenue) and Hwy. 85, “which has been a problem for
a long time,” Easterbrook said.
