The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners has approved a $55,000 design contract that could help take the kinks out of a problematical road at the southeast end of the county.

One 3,300-foot section of South Cherokee Lane has such severe rises, drops and curves, “the county has received numerous reports of single-vehicle accidents where cars simply have run off the roadway,” according to a staff report.

Commissioners awarded a professional services agreement to BM&K Construction & Engineering to design improvements for the road, a two-lane rural thoroughfare that connects Jamerson Road in Cobb County with Alabama Road (Ga. 92) east of Woodstock.

South Cherokee has a speed limit of 25 mph, but even that is too fast for some stretches. The county wants to improve the road with a 60-foot right-of-way, two 12-foot travel lanes, and 8-foot grass shoulders. It would be designed for 30 mph but posted for 25 mph.

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