
COVINGTON, Ga. — The Georgia Division of Transportation (GDOT) will quickly be closing a portion of State Route 81—the place it’s domestically often called Emory Road—for a five-month bridge substitute mission.
In response to communications from GDOT, a portion of Emory Road will probably be closed to site visitors because the bridge over Dried Indian Creek is demolished and reconstructed. The road will probably be closing on March 2 and is anticipated to stay closed via July 30.
Emory Road will probably be inaccessible (excluding residents and companies) from roughly its intersection with Freeway 278—simply previous the doorway to Newton Federal—to its intersection with Stone Mountain Road NW during the closure.
Covington Metropolis Supervisor Tres Thomas spoke on the merchandise throughout the metropolis’s Feb. 16 council assembly.
“That’s a GDOT mission,” Thomas stated. “I feel that they had some points they discovered—ended up having some sewer points.”
GDOT has provided a large State Route 81 detour route: State Route 81 North to Freeway 278, Freeway 278 West to I-20, I-20 West to Exit 84/State Route 162, State Route 162 South to State Route 81.
A second, smaller detour map, courtesy of the Metropolis of Covington, asks drivers to route across the mission utilizing West Road on the western aspect or Tempo Road to the east.

















