Sunday, May 5, 2024–3:50 p.m.

-Compiled reports-

A portion of Turner McCall Boulevard will be closed during the evening hours this week for the relocation of a water main as part of the Second Avenue improvement project.

The closure will not impact the daily commute for drivers.

However, closures will affect those who are out after 9 p.m. near Atrium Health Floyd.

The intersection with Martha Berry Boulevard will remain open.

Vehicles traveling toward Downtown Rome from Shorter Avenue will detour using Second Avenue to West Third over to Fifth Avenue; traffic on Turner McCall Boulevard will detour at North Fifth Avenue then over to Martha Berry Blvd; westbound commercial traffic must use New Calhoun Highway to Veterans Memorial Highway; eastbound commercial traffic must use Redmond Circle to New Calhoun Highway. 

The area of construction during the nightly closure is within a small footprint that extends from the area of the hospital parking deck at Bojangles’ west to the intersection with Martha Berry. 

Road Work to impact visitors to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center

The closure will change how some drivers access Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center’s emergency room and Family Birth Center.

Ambulatory patients needing care at the Emergency Care Center and laboring mothers seeking to enter the Family Birth Center are encouraged to access those areas from North Second Avenue.

They can also access those areas from Keelway Drive, which runs by the hospital’s parking deck on the north side of Turner McCall Boulevard.