The Georgia Department of Transportation will be shifting traffic on the roundabout project in Walton County at State Route 81 and Bold Springs Road in Bethlehem. This section of Bold Springs Road is 8.2 miles northeast of Loganville.
The construction will detour traffic for Bold Springs Road headed westbound by way of Bold Springs Church Road beginning Nov. 27 for approximately 60 days.
Both two lane rural roads have a posted speed limit of 45 mph. S.R. 81 sees an average annual daily traffic of 7,660 vehicles and Bold Springs Road as many as 3,810 vehicles per day. Currently, the intersection is stop controlled with a right turn lane on the southbound leg of S.R. 81.
Crash data from 2005-2011 indicated that 56 crashes occurred at this intersection resulting in 15 injuries. Of those crashes 64 percent were angle collisions accounting for 67 percent of the injuries.
GDOT hopes to reduce crash frequency and severity with the design and construction of a roundabout.
This project was awarded to Strickland and Sons Pipeline Inc. of Gainesville in April 2016.
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