Georgia State Route 754
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2010) |
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canton Road | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by GDOT | ||||
| Existed: | 1986 – 2000 | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end: |  SR 5 Spur in Marietta |
|||
| North end: |  SR 92 in Woodstock |
|||
| Highway system | ||||
|
||||
→Georgia State Route 754 (abbreviated SR 754) was a designation assigned to Canton Road in Cobb County and Cherokee County in the state of Georgia. It began at SR 5 Spur in Marietta and ended at SR 92 in Woodstock.
The highway designation was assigned in 1986 to replace SR 5 when it was removed from Canton Road, to allow the state to fund improvements to the road. As portions of the project were completed or cancelled, the SR-754 designation was gradually rescinded, finally being removed altogether in 2000.
[edit] Route description
 |
This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. |
[edit] History
Canton Road was designated as SR 754 when SR 5 was relocated to I-575 in 1986. This number was assigned to Old State Route 5 to facilitate funding for the completion of a previously planned widening project along the two and three lane portions of route between the Canton Road Connector (SR 5 Spur) and Sixes Road in Holly Springs. No portion of the route was either signed nor maintained by the Georgia Department of Transportation.
The portion between SR 92 and Sixes Road was decommissioned in the early 1990s when the widening project was canceled, although improvements were constructed on that portion. The remainder was built from south to north and was decommissioned in phases as each portion was completed respectively in 1992, 1995 and 1998. The last portion was completed as an extension of the Georgia 92 widening project in the city of Woodstock in 2000 between the Woodstock city limits and just north of SR 92. When that last section was completed, Georgia 754 was decommissioned.
SR 754 is unique in the amount of confusion it caused.[citation needed] Maps continue to show the route 20 years after it first appeared, though it only existed on paper. Part of this is because it created a logical extension of SR 5 Spur, which ends where the Canton Road Connector to I-75 meets the former Georgia 5 mainline. Locals today continue to call this road "Highway 5" in addition to Canton Road.
