Following up the post from last week about Piedmont Road railroad crossing repairs: Cobb County government posted around 10 a.m. that that stretch of the road—from Canton Road to Morgan Road—has reopened.
The crossing, is, and we’re quoting directly here from a social media posting, “is smooth as a baby’s you-know-what!”
The work was to smooth out a very rough crossing and to make track and roadside repairs.
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The construction area along Sandy Plains Road will be between East Piedmont Road and Ebenezer Road, marked in green (mapped via OpenStreetMap.com).
The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a $4.4 million contract for Sandy Plains Road traffic improvements that will include a raised median, new crosswalks and pedestrian signals and resurfacing.
The road work will stretch from East Piedmont Road to Ebenezer Road. The contract was awarded to C.W. Matthews, the low bidder among five, and the funding is coming from the 2011 SPLOST.
The project is estimated to take about a year from the time a notice to proceed with construction is issued.
The elevated concrete median will stretch from Kinjac Drive to Ebenezer Road, which prompted Northeast Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell to ask about the possible use of synthetic turf that’s recently been suggested to replace grass road medians.
“I’d rather see the concrete erased but I know that is more expensive,” she said. Cobb DOT director Jim Wilgus said that issue can be taken up when the construction project reaches that stage.
At a recent work session, Cobb commissioners heard a presentation about two synthetic turf median experiments, along stretches of Cumberland Parkway and Austell Road.
The combined cost for the turfing is close to $150,000, but each job would last more than 20 years and pay for itself in the third year and in the long run cost less than mowing grass.
Also on Tuesday, commissioners approved a nearly $12.7 million contract with Baldwin Paving Co. for 36 miles of countywide resurfacing projects, including $375,000 once the Sandy Plains Road improvements are completed. The funding also comes from the 2011 SPLOST.
Other East Cobb roads on that project list include:
Indian Hills Drive, from Old Canton Road to Ridgewater Drive (1.21 miles);
Wildwood Parkway (0.16 miles);
Gordy Parkway, from Sandy Plains Road to Shallowford Road (1.2 miles);
Jims Road, from Steinhauer Road to Wigley Road (0.67 miles);
Knight Road, from Ebenezer Road to Blackwell Road (0.62 miles);
Sandy Plains Road, from Canton Road Connector to Canton Road (0.25 miles);
Sandy Plains Road, from Ebenezer Road to Shallowford Road (1.8 miles);
Steinhauer Road, from Shallowford Road to Trickum Road (2.01 miles).
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If you’ve recently traveled on Providence Road from Pine Road to the intersection of Roswell Road near East Cobb Park, you’ve seen construction crews on the east side of the road.
That’s where a sidewalk project is underway, and will be completed in December. To be precise, the sidewalk construction is taking place between Providence Corner Drive (a little bit south of Pine Road) and Roswell Road, linking up other existing sidewalks and providing additional pedestrian access points.
There will be traffic delays as the project continues, with work crews on occasion reducing traffic to one lane.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners approved spending $63,700 for the project in August.
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If you travel along Lower Roswell Road around the Sope Creek Bridge, you’re still subjected to the weekday lane closures that have been in place since the East Cobb Pipeline Project began in late 2015.
Well, there is a projected end date for the delays as the post-installation Lower Roswell Road work nears completion: Nov. 1, according to Commissioner Bob Ott’s office, which sent out word Friday.
It was a brief message, noting that “final paving will be done in the evening hours. Thank you to everyone for your patience over the year. Hopefully traffic patterns will return to pre-pipeline.”
Further west on Lower Roswell, repaving work continues between Holt Road and the South Marietta Parkway as part of a separate traffic improvements project that includes road widening and turn lanes, especially around Sedalia Park Elementary School and Eastvalley Elementary School. Here’s more from Ott’s office about that:
This project consists of widening Lower Roswell Road from approximately 425 feet east of SR120/South Marietta Parkway to Holt Road, and includes the addition of left-turn lanes, right-turn lanes, and signal modifications. The project will also add sidewalks within the project limits, and will include resurfacing from SR120/South Marietta Parkway to Terrell Mill Road. Resurfacing Operations NIGHT WORK – are scheduled through Sunday, Nov. 12, on Lower Roswell Road between Utica Drive and South Marietta Parkway. Expect lane closures between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. with one lane remaining open at all times.
The portion of Lower Roswell between Terrell Mill and Holt has been repaved, but there is still striping work to be done.
Lower Roswell Road repaving between Terrell Mill Road and the 120 Loop is expected to take a month. (East Cobb News photo by Wendy Parker)
Starting Sunday, a Lower Roswell Road repaving project will begin that will take up to a month to complete.
This is separate from the East Cobb Pipeline Project that is almost complete. Some work crews are still testing pipes and doing other cleanup work on Lower Roswell around the Sope Creek Bridge, and repaving will get underway after that and continue into the fall.
The repaving that gets underway this weekend will take place at night, and it will be done in two stages.
The first stage, on Lower Roswell between Terrell Mill Road and Holt Road, will take place nightly between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. According to Cobb DOT, it’s expected to be done by Oct. 15.
After that, and for another two-week stretch, the Lower Roswell Road repaving will continue west from Holt to the 120 Loop.
That segment of the project, expected to be finished next spring, includes widening Lower Roswell, signal modifications, adding left and right turn lanes and a constructing a five-foot sidewalk on the west side.
While that work continues, the new Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center will be completed next to (and replacing) the East Marietta Library on Lower Roswell.
During the hours of the repaving, traffic on Lower Roswell Road will be reduced to one lane.
