The Greene County School System will close Tiger Drive to daytime access by thru-traffic effective on Monday, August 22nd.

Tiger Drive, which is a part of the Greene County High School campus northern parking lot, runs directly in front of Tiger Stadium. The school’s north parking lot is designated as the student lot, and students and staff participating in athletics after school frequently walk to and from the stadium across the parking lot.

During a traffic study conducted earlier this year by the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, nearly 11,000 vehicles traveled down Tiger Drive using it as a thru-route between Main Street and Wilson Street in the span of just two weeks. The average speed of these vehicles was over 18 miles per hour, nearly four times the 5-mph speed limit for parking lots in Georgia, posing a clear risk to school safety.

As a result, the school will utilize gates at both ends of Tiger Drive and close it daily from 8:00 a.m. until all school related activities have concluded, beginning Monday August 22nd. The below map suggests the use of 1st Street as an alternative route to accessing Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.