The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Cobb Department of Transportation are proposing a replacement project for the Bells Ferry Road bridge over Noonday Creek, and are asking for public feedback.
Interested citizens can review the project here and respond at this link by July 25. The projected cost for the project, which is in the preliminary design stage, would be $10.3 million, most coming from state sources.
The 160-foot-long bridge, three-beam steel bridge was built in 1959, long before Cobb County became suburbanized, and has two travel lanes.
The shoulders and railings do not meet current standards and the bridge also is located in a designated floodway, according to the Federal Emergency Management Association.
The proposed replacement would have three lanes, with a left turn lane, as well as a southbound right-turn lane at the approach to the driveway for the Noonday Creek Trailhead. The new bridge also would have pedestrian sidewalks, which do not exist now.
GDOT said in related documentation that construction, which is expected to be completed in 2028, “would be staged that no off-site detour would be required.
The following graphic is a GDOT project layout that from left to right indicates northbound traffic along Bells Ferry Road.
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