A proposed bus route from Marietta to the Johnson Ferry Road corridor would restore service to East Cobb that was eliminated in Cobb budget cuts during the recession.
A project list for the proposed Cobb Mobility SPLOST would include what is being called an Arterial Rapid-Transit line along Roswell Road to the Johnson Ferry Road area, a total of 6.6 miles, and with an estimated cost between $125 million-$150 million.
That project list also includes a proposed East Cobb Transit Center, one of several planned as part of a proposed 30-year tax that would collect nearly $11 billion in sales taxes.
Cobb DOT officials will ask commissioners on Tuesday to place a referendum on the November 2024 ballot on whether to approve the tax, and to approve the project list it has compiled.
That list (you can read it here) details the cost breakdown for eight different project types, with nearly $6 billion devoted for what’s called “high-capacity” transit bus lines.
The proposed Roswell Road route is one of three in the Arterial Rapid-Transit category, along well-traveled routes and that connect to major activity centers.
The East Cobb route would extend to Avenue East Cobb, just east of Johnson Ferry Road, and down to Merchants Walk Shopping Center.
The East Cobb Transit Center location wasn’t specified in the project list information, but it would connect the East Cobb ART route with two proposed bus routes serving Fulton County and DeKalb County.
Those routes would extend to South Atlanta Street in the city of Roswell and the Dunwoody MARTA Station, according to the proposed project list.
The former is included on a list of local bus routes; the latter in a rapid-bus transit list of routes that would make fewer stops.
Currently the only transit option in the East Cobb area is a CobbLinc route along Powers Ferry Road.
Republican commissioners JoAnn Birrell and Keli Gambrill oppose a 30-year tax.
In September, county officials held a town hall at Fullers Recreation Center, where residents expressed skepticism to a transit tax.
The commission meeting begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta), and the full agenda can be found by clicking here.
You also can watch on the county’s website and YouTube channels and on Cobb TV 23 on Comcast Cable.
Related:
- Citizens skeptical of transit tax at East Cobb town hall
- Conservative group opposed to Cobb transit tax referendum
- Cobb commissioners approve funding to finish police Precinct 6
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