Georgia State Route 92
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| Length: | 98 mi[1] (158 km) | ||||||||
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Griffin, Fayetteville, Fairburn, Douglasville, Hiram, Acworth, Woodstock, Roswell | ||||||||
| North end: |    S.R. 120/S.R. 9 and S.R. 140 in Roswell |
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>State Route 92 is a highway in the U.S. state of Georgia. The road runs for 98 miles (158 km) from Griffin to Roswell. Primarily signed from south to north, Route 92 is a rural route that passes through three county seats.
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[edit] Routing
The highway begins at Taylor Street (U.S. 19 Business/U.S. 41 Business/Georgia 16) in Griffin and ends at the intersection of Alpharetta Highway (Georgia 9, co-signed Georgia 120) and Holcomb Bridge Road (Georgia 140) in Roswell. It is predominantly a rural route, passing through three county seats: Griffin, Fayetteville and Douglasville.
Despite the fact that 92 is an even-numbered highway, the highway is primarily signed north/south, although there are some signs showing an east/west direction.
The Georgia 92 bridge over Lake Allatoona in Acworth is a mini-dam separating Lake Allatoona from its major tributary, Lake Acworth.
[edit] Historic routing
[edit] Spalding County
Georgia 92 originally terminated at US 19/41. It was extended to is current terminus when the Griffin Bypass was built, and the Old US 19/41 became a business route.
[edit] Paulding County
Georgia 92 was originally routed into Dallas, and then overlapped U.S. 278 going east, before breaking-off going into Douglasville. In the 1970s, the routing was changed onto Bobo Road, with the old section going into Dallas designated as 92 Spur. In the late 1970s, the designation moved into its current position near and in some places right on the Cobb County line, on Hiram Acworth Highway, also called County Line Road. North of here it is on Dallas Acworth Highway, which formerly became Acworth Dallas Highway in Cobb.
In 1977, Southern Airways Flight 242 crashed onto Georgia 92 Spur in New Hope, killing 63 passengers and nine people on the ground. A nearby convenience store was destroyed as a result.
In 1981, Georgia 92 Spur became Georgia 381, which was deleted in the mid 1990s.
A banner route, Georgia 92 Connector, also existed on what is today East Paulding Drive. It later became Georgia 120 Connector before being deleted.
[edit] Cobb County
Georgia 92 enters Cobb County in three separate non-adjoining places in different parts of the county. In addition to the Acworth section, 92 also enters Cobb County just north of East Paulding Drive to just south of Due West Road. It also makes a brief entrance at the intersection of Sandy Plains Road. Upon reaching the northeast end while driving on Sandy Plains Road, signs for 92 "north" point south (right turn), even though Roswell is east, and signs for 92 "south" point north (left turn), even though Woodstock is west.
Georgia 92 originally was routed through downtown Acworth, concurrent with old U.S. 41 on Main Street. As a result of the damming of Lake Allatoona, the road was rerouted onto a newly-created stretch of road, Lake Acworth Drive from the new four-laned U.S. 41 (Cobb Parkway) to Main Street. The older routing has been flooded as part of the lake. In the mid-1970s, an overpass over Main Street was constructed, and 92 was rerouted on this new stretch of Lake Acworth Drive connecting to Cherokee Street. The bridge (within Cobb County Regional Park around the lake) is also the dam for Lake Acworth, which existed before Allatoona, and now empties directly into it. 92 is concurrent with 41 for part of the way, then makes an acute turn back south on Dallas Acworth Highway, its routing before the lake was flooded. The Cobb section was originally Acworth Dallas Highway, following local naming conventions that avoid confusion with Dallas Highway (Georgia 120) from Marietta (not prefixed because it is the county seat).
The reconstruction of the diamond interchange at Interstate 75, which is immediately inside the line from Bartow and Cherokee counties, was nearly complete as of December 2008[update], and cost over 16.4 million dollars. [2] This is related to the widening of 92 to the north and west of this point in Cherokee, although it was a separate contract. This short section is called Cherokee Road and is in the unincorporated part of Cobb. At the southern edge of the intersection is the Acworth city limit, and it is at this point (34°04′40″N 84°39′12″W / 34.0779°N 84.6533°W), rather than the more logical intersection just a few yards or meters south, that it becomes Cowan Road. At that intersection, Cowan continues south, 92 "south" turns west on Lake Acworth Drive, and that street continues east (parallel to 75 "south") as Baker Road.
[edit] Cherokee County
Georgia 92 originally was routed onto Kellogg Creek Road and portions of Bells Ferry Road. The road was rerouted to its present route, along the entire length (within the county) of Alabama Road in the late 1960s.
As the road west ("south") of Woodstock has been widened in the late 2000s, it has been straightened and the path has been moved by several hundred yards or meters (34°05′35″N 84°39′04″W / 34.093°N 84.651°W) in three places, including a major viaduct over the flood plain of a stream near the lake. For unknown reasons, GDOT has made this section as wide as an interstate highway and has therefore taken a great deal of land, even though the existing two-lane road handled traffic easily even at rush hour, and there are now only four lanes. By contrast, the section from Woodstock west past Bells Ferry Road to Wade Green Road had extremely bad traffic for many years before it was widened, although this too was made extremely wide, taking it much closer than necessary to existing homes and taking much more parking than necessary from existing businesses, with some now stuck well below the road behind massive retaining walls because of it.
The part from Woodstock to Roswell was widened this way in the 1990s, also taking a large swath of forest, but not impacting nearly as many structures. Since then, the area has developed rapidly, with little or no native trees remaining on developed lots.
The section within the city limit of Woodstock and west of former Georgia 5 (Main Street to the north and Canton Road to the south), is the main business district for the town, outside of downtown. This section has an average of four lanes in each direction, plus several turn lanes, and the diamond interchange with Interstate 575. It also crosses Noonday Creek, which briefly closed the road in 1995 when major flooding occurred after very heavy rains caused by Hurricane Dennis, which quickly followed Hurricane Cindy. This was an extreme event, sending the creek outside of its flood plain (which was determined years before heavy suburban sprawl greatly increased runoff) -- the road is otherwise not prone to flooding.
[edit] Fulton County
Georgia 92 terminated at Sandy Plains Road in extreme northeast Cobb County until the 1980's, when it was extended to its present-day terminus at Georgia 9 (Alpharetta Highway, north/south), 120 (south/east), and 140 (north/east). During the late-1980s or early-1990s widening, this section was made from two undivided lanes to be six lanes with a raised median. Entirely within the city limits of Roswell, it is known as Crossville Road near the town. On the west side, it is part of Woodstock Road which turns off to the southeast toward the town square.
