Cobb commissioners on Tuesday approved a $690,809 contract for traffic improvements at Old Canton Road and Holly Springs Road that include the construction of a roundabout.
Funding for the project is provided in the 2016 Cobb Special Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). Glosson was the low bidder against six other companies, and the measure was approved by commissioners on their consent agenda.
A total of $1 million was budgeted for the project, which will convert a three-way intersection with all-way stop signs into a roundabout with a bypass lane, pedestrian refuge islands, a guardrail, signage and striping.
About $170,000 has been spent in initial costs, and another $27,000 will be spent to relocate water lines (to be paid with Cobb Water System funds).
The project is expected to take around six months once construction begins.
This will be the second roundabout in the Holly Springs Road corridor, along with another at the Holly Springs intersection with Davis Road.
Nearby are two other roundabouts: At the entrance to Pope High School on Hembree Road, and a newly completed project at Hembree and Post Oak Tritt Road.
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