Cobb DOT is proposing the installation of three-way stop signs at the intersection of Steinhauer Road and Rocky Mountain Road in Northeast Cobb.
A request to spend $18,500 in signage supplies will come before the Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday on its consent agenda.
Currently, only motorists approaching Steinhauer from Rocky Mountain are required to stop; the agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting said the request, if approved, would mandate vehicle stops in all directions.
The measure is designed to improve pedestrian access between Rocky Mount Elementary School and Lassiter High School.
“We have received several requests to provide pedestrian access between Rocky Mount Elementary School and Lassiter High School along the Steinhauer Road corridor,” Cobb Commissioner JoAnn Birrell said in her weekly newsletter Thursday.
“A traffic study has been completed, and the Cobb Department of Transportation has identified a location on Rocky Mountain Road that is best suited for a crosswalk.”
In Tuesday’s agenda item, Cobb DOT said that “based on the non-correctible sight distance along Steinhauer Road, installation of signage and pavement markings to convert the approaches on each road to an all-way stop-controlled intersecrion is justified,” according to federal guidelines.
The agenda item states the funding would come from the current Cobb DOT operating budget.
The BOC meeting begins at 9 a.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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- New crosswalk opens on Jamerson Road at Davis ES
- Columns Drive traffic project to remove and replace trees
- Jamerson Road traffic changes proposed after pedestrian crash
- Cobb approves Canton-Piedmont intersection work
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