Cobb DOT is proposing improvements for pedestrian access on Jamerson Road near Davis Elementary School after a boy was seriously injured in a crash there this summer.
According to an agenda item, the Cobb Board of Commissioners will be asked Tuesday to approve a contract for $146,966 for a project that would realign traffic lanes and install a rapid flashing rectangular beacon at a crosswalk.
Preston Veal, 12, a student at Mabry Middle School, is recovering after being hit by a van while crossing Jamerson Road near the school in late June. He was hospitalized with numerous broken bones and internal injuries, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help pay for his medical expenses.
Veal, a member of the Lassiter Junior Trojan youth football program, was walking home from Davis on June 28 after shooting basketball at the school. Cobb Police said he was crossing from a sidewalk on Jamerson, east of Turtle Rock Drive, when he was hit by a van.
That’s near the only crosswalk across Jamerson serving the school.
After our initial report, a resident of the area messaged us to say she’d begun a petition drive to push for greater safety measures.
Courtney Chiang DiStefano said her petition was asking for a solar flashing light alert, along with crosswalk detectors, a chirping alert for pedestrians and for another crosswalk to be built to cover both sides of the school.
She said she and her family use the crosswalk often to visit grandparents and to go to classes as Davis, but “the lack of a protected crosswalk with sufficient signage and protection puts our children and neighbors at significant risk.”
The agenda item (you can read it here) doesn’t go that far. The recommended contractor is Glosson Enterprises, LLC, and if approved, the project has a 60-day completion date timeline. The funding would come from the current 2024 Cobb Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).
The Board of Commissioners meeting begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the county office building at 100 Cherokee Street, Marietta. You can view the full agenda by clicking here.
You also can watch the hearing on the county’s website and YouTube channels and on Cobb TV 23 on Comcast Cable.
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- 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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