Get ready to say bye-bye to those large yellow intersection warning signs that sprouted up last week on Ga. Highway 54 all the way from Peachtree City to Fayetteville.

They will be replaced with green signs with white lettering, which was the original color scheme planned all along, according to officials with the Georgia Department of Transportation. The change will be made “as soon as possible,” according to DOT district spokesman Barry Hancock.

“Hopefully when they’re a different color they’ll be a little less obtrusive to folks,” said DOT spokesman David Spear.

The signs created quite a stir as the bright yellow background sticks out like a sore thumb in Peachtree City, where city officials have made it routine to get national corporations to forego their corporate colors in favor of more pleasing schemes.

The contractor on the project goofed, assuming the color scheme of yellow signs with black lettering was being used because those same colors were used on the older, much smaller intersection warning signs, Spear said.

The yellow signs will remain up until the new signs are available, Hancock said. There is not yet a time line on when that will happen, he added.

The contractor, Sign Systems Inc. will cover the cost of the new signs, Hancock said.

“It was a contractor error,” Hancock said.

The new green signs will be the same size and contain the same wording as the old, yellow signs, he added.

The new signs are part of a program adopted in 2003 for high-speed corridors that move through urban and suburban areas, Spear said. That’s exactly what happens on Hwy. 54 in Fayette, he added.

Hancock said the department typically does not consult with local municipalities on projects this small. But the DOT’s district engineer has communicated the latest update on the project with the city engineers in Fayetteville and Peachtree City, he added.

“It’s not a snubbing,” Hancock said, referring to the DOT not consulting with Fayette officials on the matter before the contractor installed the yellow signs. “... It’s a small project. It was just sort of an everyday sort of thing that we do, and that’s how it was handled.”

The sign project was initiated by the DOT’s district safety and design department. The signs were designed to reduce intersection accidents on high-volume roads, and they will be used statewide on similar corridors, Hancock noted.

All told, the $146,843 project will involve the replacement of 36 signs along Hwy. 54.