Cobb commissioners this week approved grant applications for federal grant funding to study areas of major traffic congestion across the county, including the busy Roswell-Johnson Ferry intersection in East Cobb.
The resolutions, passed at Tuesday’s commissioners meeting, formalize Transportation Improvement Program applications to be submitted to the Atlanta Regional Commission.
What would be called the Roswell Road and Johnson Ferry Intersection Improvement Study would cost $500,000, with $400,000 coming from federal sources under the Surface Transportation Block Grant program. Another $100,000 in local match funding would be provided in the 2016 Cobb SPLOST Transportation Improvement Program, according to Tuesday’s agenda item.
The study would provide a concept design for “a congestion relief and mobility improvement planning project” that’s in the Cobb Comprehensive Transportation Plan 2040 Update:
“The purpose of this project is to conduct a transportation study to assess existing conditions at the intersection of Roswell Road and Johnson Ferry Road for design of a congestion mitigation strategy to reduce vehicular travel delay. The study will include cost effective alternatives to identified capacity improvements and grade separation options.”
Another grant application for the East Cobb area includes a possible extension of the Noonday Creek Trail, from the current termination of the trail on Bells Ferry Road northbound to Shallowford Road (see map at right, below).
The grant request is for $320,000 in federal funding, with an $80,000 local match, also earmarked in the Cobb 2016 SPLOST.
Concept design of the proposed Noonday Creek Trail Extension project would include assessing a possible greenway trail along Noonday Creek that would expand pedestrian/bike trails and connect to the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
Funding for the studies is not guaranteed, and “will be competitively selected” by the ARC for the FY 2020-24 periods and are based on “predetermined evaluation,” according to Tuesday’s agenda item.
If TIP funding is approved by the ARC, Cobb commissioners would have to approve proceeding with the studies.
Any funding for projects constructed following those studies would be provided in the future.
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