More traffic signals are on the way for the western segment of Ga. Highway

54 in downtown Fayetteville.

Tiger Trail will get two of the signals: one where it intersects with

Lanier Avenue with westbound traffic and one where it intersects with

eastbound traffic on Stonewall Avenue. A third light will be added further

west on Hwy. 54 at the intersection that serves the Magnolia Park office

complex and the new Villages at LaFayette Park subdivision.

Fayetteville City Engineer Don Easterbrook said the signals should be

installed within the next month.

"It provides the best access, we think, for getting in and out

of that area," Easterbrook said of the plan for the new signals.

The traffic lights on Tiger Trail are expected to improve the flow of

traffic from the nearby Fayette County High School.

All three of the new traffic signals will be synchronized on the system

that controls traffic lights on Hwy. 54 from Jeff Davis to Grady Avenue,

Easterbrook said. The idea is to keep traffic moving as much as possible

on Hwy. 54, he noted.

The traffic signals will be paid for by the developer of the Villages

at LaFayette Park subdivision, which was one of the city's requirements,

Easterbrook said. The city will kick in some money to purchase the masts

for the signals to be mounted on - instead of having the signals

hang from the cable wire, Easterbrook said.

The signals will be needed in the future as the Villages at LaFayette

Park - which includes residential, office and commercial uses - develops

in the future, Easterbrook said.

The city is also trying to convince Georgia Department of Transportation

officials to approve a traffic signal for Ga. Highway 85 (Glynn Street)

and LaFayette Avenue, which runs by the old Fayette County High School,

Easterbrook said. That signal would allow vehicles to turn left to head

north on Hwy. 85, thus avoiding the often-clogged intersection of Hwy.

54 (Stonewall Avenue) and Hwy. 85, "which has been a problem for

a long time," Easterbrook said.