New “weight limit restriction” signs will go up in early March along Thompson Road, the biproduct of regular GDOT inspections of bridges citywide (and statewide).

 

Specifically, the signs relate to the bridge spanning a Chicken Creek tributary along Thompson less than a half mile north of Redd Road. It states that vehicles weighing more than 10 tons should not cross this bridge for safety reasons.

 

For most residents’ everyday vehicles, this will have no impact since they weigh less than 10 tons. Still, it might affect school buses (and thus their routes) as well as big garbage trucks, loaded dump trucks, large filled moving vans, concrete mixers, and more, such as some Milton Fire engines based out of Station 42. Plus, the fact Thompson Road isn’t on the official approved truck road list should mitigate the impact since big commercial trucks shouldn’t be traveling on it regardless.

 

This new measure follows a routine inspection of this bridge by State inspectors. The Georgia Department of Transportation is responsible to making sure bridges across the state are safe, as well as to spearhead improvements and replacements as needed. In fact, several Milton bridges are set to be revamped over the next few years by GDOT.