RTAC Recommendation

The City of Roswell’s appointed community-led Transportation Advisory Commission (RTAC) passed an official motion strongly recommending that the Roswell Mayor and City Council immediately support a modified Historic Gateway design concept alternative that is based on a smaller road diet reconfiguration along SR 9/ Atlanta Street to include two lanes (north/ south travel lanes) that provide safe continuous traffic flow across the river (red stop light free!), a raised planted median center turn lane that eliminates the dangerous center reversible lane, and a grade separated bow-tie intersection (roundabouts installed on opposite sides of SR 9/ Atlanta Street along Azalea Drive and Riverside Road). This innovative new alternative Historic Gateway concept proposal is planned to provide the following overall benefits to the City of Roswell:

• Removes the dangerous reversible lanes

• Fits within the existing right-of-way (ROW)

• Prevents inducing regional cut-thru traffic through our Historic District

• Implements the burying of overhead electrical power/ utility lines as promised by the City in TSPLOST 1

• Designed for continuous traffic flow – eliminates traffic signals and minimizes left turns

• Reduces economic and community disruption to local businesses

• Large capital budget reduction – elimination of at least one proposed bridge and a narrower build footprint

• Less right-of-way impacts to local businesses and private property

• Improved community safety with sidewalks and a multi-use path for pedestrians and cyclists

• Slower vehicular speeds maintained throughout the distinctive Historic District

• Reduces overall environmental and cultural impacts

• Supports a placemaking destination/ neighborhood node called Allenbrook as prescribed in the City’s in the 2012 Historic Gateway Master Plan

• Preserves the beautiful tree canopy through Roswell’s gateway entrance into the City as prescribed in the 2019 Roswell Historic District Master Plan