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Ernest W. Barrett Parkway

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Ernest W. Barrett Parkway (more commonly Barrett Parkway) is a major thoroughfare in the northwestern part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, in the north-central part of Cobb County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. [1]

85 relations: Alternate route, Arterial road, Association football, Atlanta, Atlanta metropolitan area, Austell, Georgia, Big-box store, Boxcar, Bus rapid transit, Bypass (road), Campus, Canyon, Chairman, Civil engineer, Cobb County, Georgia, Constitutional amendment, Costco, County commission, Covered bridge, Cumberland Mall, Detour, East Cobb, Georgia, Economics of Christmas, Environmental impact assessment, Ernest W. Barrett, Floodplain, George Busbee, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia Department of Transportation, Georgia Navigator, Georgia Northeastern Railroad, Georgia State Route 120, Georgia State Route 237, Georgia State Route 280, Georgia State Route 3, Georgia State Route 360, Georgia State Route 5, Go-kart, Historic ferries of the Atlanta area, Holly, Home rule, Industrial park, Intelligent transportation system, Interchange (road), Interstate 285, Interstate 575, Interstate 75 in Georgia, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, ..., Land development, Level crossing, List of former state routes in Georgia (U.S. state), Local-express lanes, Marietta, Georgia, Median strip, Mixed-use development, National Register of Historic Places, Northwest Corridor Project, Noses Creek, Quercus palustris, Ramp meter, Referendum, Reversible lane, Ridge, Rock (geology), Roswell, Georgia, Rural area, Rust, Sales tax, Shopping mall, Siding, Silver Comet Trail, The Home Depot, Town Center at Cobb, Traffic camera, Traffic light, Trailhead, U.S. Route 41, Variable-message sign, Viaduct, Vinings, Georgia, Visitor center, Weathering steel, Wish list. Expand index (35 more) »

Alternate route

An official alternate route is a special route in the United States that provides an alternate alignment for a highway.

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Arterial road

An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Atlanta metropolitan area

Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metro area in the US state of Georgia and the ninth-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States.

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Austell, Georgia

Austell is a city in Cobb County in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Big-box store

A big-box store (also supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.

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Boxcar

A boxcar is a North American railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight.

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT, BRTS, busway, transitway) is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system.

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Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

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Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated.

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Canyon

A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.

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Chairman

The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Cobb County, Georgia

Cobb County is a suburban county in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Constitutional amendment

A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a nation or state.

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Costco

Costco Wholesale Corporation, trading as Costco, is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs.

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County commission

A county commission (also known as a board of county commissioners) is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in some states of the United States.

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Covered bridge

A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof and siding which, in most covered bridges, create an almost complete enclosure.

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Cumberland Mall

The Cumberland Mall is an upscale mall located in the Cumberland district of Metropolitan Atlanta near the suburbs of Smyrna and Vinings, opened on August 8, 1973 and was the largest mall in Georgia, United States, when it first opened.

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Detour

A detour or (British English: diversion) is a (normally temporary) route taking traffic around an area of prohibited or reduced access, such as a construction site.

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East Cobb, Georgia

Home to about 175,890, East Cobb is an unincorporated community in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.

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Economics of Christmas

The economics of Christmas is significant because Christmas is typically a peak selling season for retailers in many nations around the world.

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Environmental impact assessment

Environmental assessment (EA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.

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Ernest W. Barrett

Ernest W. Barrett (April 29, 1922 – March 11, 1985) was the chairman of the county commission in Cobb County, Georgia from 1965 to 1984.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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George Busbee

George Dekle Busbee Sr. (August 7, 1927 – July 16, 2004), was an American politician who served as the 77th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1975 to 1983, and a senior partner at King & Spalding thereafter.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Georgia Department of Transportation

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is the organization in charge of developing and maintaining all state and federal roadways in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia Navigator

Georgia Navigator (sometimes also as Georgia NaviGAtor) is an Advanced Traffic Management System used in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia Northeastern Railroad

The Georgia Northeastern Railroad is a short line freight railroad which runs from the town of Elizabeth, Georgia (now within Marietta, northwest of Atlanta) to the city of Blue Ridge, Georgia.

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Georgia State Route 120

State Route 120 (SR 120) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Haralson, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties in northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia State Route 237

State Route 237 (SR 237) is a state highway located entirely within the city limits of Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia State Route 280

State route 280 (SR 280) is a generally south-to-north state highway located in the Atlanta metropolitan area in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia State Route 3

State Route 3 (SR 3) is a state highway that travels south-to-north through portions of the western part of the U.S. state of Georgia, roughly paralleling Interstate 75 (I-75).

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Georgia State Route 360

State Route 360 (SR 360) is a state highway located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Georgia State Route 5

State Route 5 (SR 5) is a state highway that travels south-to-north through portions of Carroll, Douglas, Cobb, Cherokee, Pickens, Gilmer, and Fannin counties in the western and northern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Go-kart

A go-kart, also written as go-cart (often referred to as simply a kart), is a type of open-wheel car.

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Historic ferries of the Atlanta area

Historic ferries operated on rivers around Atlanta, Georgia area, and became namesakes for numerous current-day roads in north Georgia.

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Holly

Ilex, or holly, is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.

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Home rule

Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.

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Industrial park

An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development.

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Intelligent transportation system

An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application which, without embodying intelligence as such, aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.

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Interchange (road)

In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that uses grade separation, and typically one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without interruption from any other crossing traffic stream.

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Interstate 285

Interstate 285 (I-285) is an Interstate Highway loop encircling Atlanta, Georgia, for.

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Interstate 575

Interstate 575 (I-575) is an Interstate Highway spur route in the United States, which branches off Interstate 75 in Kennesaw and connects the metro Atlanta area with the north Georgia mountains, extending.

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Interstate 75 in Georgia

Interstate 75 (I-75) in the U.S. state of Georgia runs north–south along the U.S. Route 41 (US 41) corridor on the western side of the state, passing through the cities of Valdosta, Macon, and Atlanta.

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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Kennesaw Battlefield Park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain.

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Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public, coeducational, research-oriented institution with two primary campuses located in Kennesaw, Georgia and in Marietta, Georgia.

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Kennesaw, Georgia

Kennesaw is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Land development

Land development is altering the landscape in any number of ways such as.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.

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List of former state routes in Georgia (U.S. state)

This is a List of former state routes in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Local-express lanes

The local-express lane (also called collector–distributor lanes within a single interchange) system is an arrangement of carriageways within a major highway where long distance traffic can use lanes with fewer interchanges compared to local traffic which use 'local' or 'collector' lanes that have access to all interchanges.

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Marietta, Georgia

Marietta is located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is the county's seat and largest city.

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Median strip

The median strip or central reservation is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways, such as divided highways, dual carriageways, freeways, and motorways.

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Mixed-use development

Mixed-use development is a type of urban development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Northwest Corridor Project

The Northwest Corridor Project (formerly Northwest Corridor HOV/BRT) is a Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) plan currently under construction to put HOV and Peach Pass toll lanes (and originally bus rapid transit) along Interstate 75 and Interstate 575 in the northwestern suburbs of metro Atlanta.

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Noses Creek

Noses Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Quercus palustris

Quercus palustris, the pin oak or swamp Spanish oak, is an oak in the red oak section Quercus sect.

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Ramp meter

A ramp meter, ramp signal, or metering light is a device, usually a basic traffic light or a two-section signal (red and green only, no yellow) light together with a signal controller that regulates the flow of traffic entering freeways according to current traffic conditions.

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Referendum

A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.

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Reversible lane

A reversible lane (British English: tidal flow) is a lane in which traffic may travel in either direction, depending on certain conditions.

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Ridge

A ridge or mountain ridge are geological features consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance.The sides of the ridge slope away from narrow top on either side.The line along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, is called the ridgeline.

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Rock (geology)

Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.

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Roswell, Georgia

Roswell is a city in north Fulton County, Georgia, United States.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Rust

Rust is an iron oxide, a usually red oxide formed by the redox reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture.

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Sales tax

A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.

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Shopping mall

A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

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Siding

Siding or wall cladding is the protective material attached to the exterior side of a wall of a house or other building.

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Silver Comet Trail

The Silver Comet Trail is a rail trail in western Georgia.

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The Home Depot

The Home Depot Inc. or Home Depot is an American home improvement supplies retailing company that sells tools, construction products, and services.

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Town Center at Cobb

Town Center at Cobb (often called Town Center Mall), is a regional shopping mall located in Kennesaw, Georgia near Atlanta.

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Traffic camera

A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road.

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Traffic light

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control flows of traffic.

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Trailhead

A trailhead is the point at which a trail begins, where the trail is often intended for hiking, biking, horseback riding, or off-road vehicles.

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U.S. Route 41

U.S. Route 41, also U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), is a major north–south United States Highway that runs from Miami, Florida to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Variable-message sign

A variable- (also changeable-, electronic-, or dynamic-) message sign, often abbreviated VMS, CMS, or DMS, and in the UK known as a matrix sign, is an electronic traffic sign often used on roadways to give travelers information about special events.

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Viaduct

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.

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Vinings, Georgia

Vinings is a census-designated place in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, just across the Chattahoochee River from Atlanta.

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Visitor center

A visitor center or centre (see American and British English spelling differences), visitor information center, tourist information center, is a physical location that provides tourist information to visitors.

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Weathering steel

Weathering steel, often referred to by the genericized trademark COR-TEN steel and sometimes written without the hyphen as corten steel, is a group of steel alloys which were developed to eliminate the need for painting, and form a stable rust-like appearance after several years exposure to weather.

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Wish list

A wish list or want list is an itemization of goods or services that a person or organization desires.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_W._Barrett_Parkway

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