The Alpharetta City Council has approved an intergovernmental agreement with Johns Creek to split 50-50, up to $250,000, the cost of “traffic calming” devices on Buice Road between Kimball Bridge and Jones Bridge roads.
Buice is within the jurisdiction of Johns Creek but has Alpharetta residents living on the east and west sides of the street, Alpharetta staff said in a report to the council. The road has speed tables previously installed by Fulton County that do not meet standards, and Johns Creek may remove them.
Plans call for replacing them with chicanes and mini-roundabouts. A chicane is a series of alternating mid-block curb extensions that narrow the roadway and force vehicles to follow an S-shaped path to discourage speeding, staff said.
The proposed mini-roundabouts will be 72 feet in diameter, compared with 82 feet elsewhere, staff said. They will be designed without landscaping so public safety vehicles and larger vehicles, like moving trucks, can drive straight through rather than taking the long way around.
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