LAWRENCEVILLE - Gwinnett County has signed an agreement with the state that will provide $11 million of federal funds for right-of-way acquisition to widen State Route 20/Cumming Highway near Sugar Hill from Peachtree Industrial Boulevard to the Chattahoochee River.
This is the last of three projects to expand the only remaining two-lane sections of State Route 20 in Gwinnett. Once complete, the road will be four lanes all the way from Brand Road in south Gwinnett near the Walton County line north to the Forsyth County line at the river. The heavily traveled road carries 30,000 vehicles a day now and planners expect traffic to almost double in the next 20 years.
"This agreement lets us get started on the time-consuming process of negotiating for right-of-way and easements on more than 200 properties," said Gwinnett Transportation Director Brian Allen. The Federal Highway Administration authorized the project last month after reviewing environmental studies earlier this year.
The County will spend $700,000 for services related to the acquisitions. Gwinnett has set aside funding for the project in the 2005 and 2009 SPLOST sales tax programs.
Allen said his department will combine this project with another one to build a new, four-lane divided-roadway bridge over the Chattahoochee River. Forsyth County is also working with the Georgia DOT to widen State Route 20 from James Burgess Road to Samples Road to help relieve congestion between Sugar Hill and Cumming.
Gwinnett has already widened State Route 20 through Grayson from Plantation Boulevard to Ozora Road and work is underway now between Ozora Road and Brand Road.
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July 5th, 2025
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