If you can remember when there

were no traffic lights in Fayette County, then you were here before 1967.

The first red light went up

at the north intersections of Ga. highways 85 and 54 in Fayetteville in

1967. At that time Hwy. 54 was a two-way street down Lanier Avenue on

the north side of the courthouse square.

Currently there are 20 red

lights in Fayetteville, and it is estimated that the amount of traffic

coming and going beneath the hwys. 85-54 lights is about 60,000 in a 24-hour

period.

The first red light in Peachtree

City was installed at the intersection of Ga. highways 54 and 74 about

1978-79. The second was at Hwy. 54 and Peachtree Parkway and came about

two years later. Currently there are 18 stop lights in Peachtree City,

and it is estimated that approximately 25,000 cars a day go under the

light at hwys. 54 and 74.

The Town of Tyrone has three

stop lights, with the first one going up at Jenkins Road about 12 years

ago.

The red lights in unincorporated

Fayette County are handled by the Georgia Department of Transportation,

and there are 14 of them.

The population at the time

of the first red light was approximately 8,000. The population now is

93,000, with a total of 55 red lights.

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