Earlier this week Cobb DOT posted the aerial photo above showing the extended turn lane that’s being built on Little Willeo Road at Johnson Ferry.
That’s the right turn onto Johnson Ferry northbound from that’s subject to quite a few back-ups.
Cobb DOT said that the project, funded with current 2022 Cobb SPLOST funding, is expected to be finished in September.
Jamerson Road at Davis ES
As we noted last week, Cobb DOT is enhancing safety features on Jamerson Road at Davis Elementary School, where a boy was seriously injured near the crosswalk in June.
Cobb Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved spending $146,966 for a project that would realign traffic lanes and install a rapid flashing rectangular beacon at a crosswalk. Signage has already gone up.
Preston Veal, 12, a student at Mabry Middle School, is recovering after being hit by a van while crossing Jamerson Road near the school after shooting basketball there. He was hospitalized with numerous broken bones and internal injuries, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help pay for his medical expenses.
“Thank you,” Commissioner JoAnn Birrell told Cobb DOT director Drew Raessler before the vote.
“The neighbors thank you, the schools thank you and our prayers go out” to Veal and his family.
Coming Holly Springs Road changes
Cobb DOT announced last week that there will be improvements on Holly Springs Road, near St. Andrews Way, from September-December.
The center turn lane on Holly Springs near that intersection was being “misused,” and that DOT said it has heard from the public.
The project will repurpose portions of the two-way left turn lane along Holly Springs with “dedicated left turn lanes and small medians.” for more information, click here.
Related:
- Jamerson Road traffic changes proposed after pedestrian crash
- Cobb approves Canton-Piedmont intersection work
- Cobb DOT official to provide Lower Roswell Road update
- 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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