As the Lower Roswell Road traffic project continues, a representative from Cobb DOT will be providing an update to the community later this month.
Cobb DOT project manager Karyn Matthews is the featured speaker at the East Cobb Civic Association meeting on Aug. 27, starting at 7 p.m. at the Wellstar East Cobb Health Park (3747 Roswell Road). Admission is free and open to the public.
The long-planned $7 million Lower Roswll project got underway earlier this year, stretching from Woodlawn Drive to Davidson Road, and with major changes at the Johnson Ferry Road intersection.
Funding comes from the Cobb 2011 SPLOST (Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax), and the anticipated timetable for completion is November 2026.
Approval came with plenty of controversy, as it was passed by Cobb commissioners on a 3-2 vote after former commissioner Jerica Richardson made the motion for the work to move ahead.
That was after a redesign in 2022 and a few delays early in 2024, and in spite of vigorous community protests, including some business owners in the corridor.
Opposing the project was commissioner JoAnn Birrell, whose district includes the Lower Roswell Road area that Richardson, whose office was declared vacant in January, represented at the time.
That approval came more than a decade after it was first proposed, and a couple of years after renewed concerns about the impact on local businesses in the area.
The most controversial part of the project is a raised median along Lower Roswell, between Johnson Ferry Road and Davidson Road, that business owners have protested would be “a bad idea.”
Related:
- Bells Ferry Road bridge replacement project proposed
- Cobb approves traffic project at Shallowford-Gordy Parkway
- Boy, 12, seriously injured after being struck by van on Jamerson Road
- First phase of Lower Roswell Road project gets underway
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