Right-of-way acquisition is just starting on a major and unique-for-Georgia retooling of Ga. 400 at Ga. 53 in Dawson County, one of the region’s busiest intersections. The cost of acquiring the 33 parcels is $9.5 million, a process that could take up to 18 months to complete, said Teri N. Pope, a Hall County-based spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Transportation Plans are being developed for a “continuous-flow intersection,” initially one of several options the DOT considered to fix the traffic-clogged intersection. The concept, realized in other parts of the U.S. but still new to Georgia, seeks particularly to ease the flow of northbound and southbound Ga. 400 traffic trying to turn left onto Ga. 53.