With the passage of the 2017-2022 Special Local Option Sales Tax, Duluth has been reviewing how best to spend future funding. City Engineer Margie Pozin and Duluth staff met with Gwinnett County to review potential transportation projects. The county must approve proposed projects in order for the city to share funds in a 19/81 percent split.

Among the projects under consideration is a Chattahoochee Drive/Main Street multi-use trail from downtown to Peachtree Industrial Boulevard estimated to cost $3.6 million, sidewalks along Pine Needle Drive costing a possible $2.7 million, as well as construction of George Rogers Avenue. Two possible traffic lights are also under consideration, one for the intersection of Abbotts Bridge Road and George Rogers Avenue and one at Main St. and Rogers Bridge Road. Traffic light intersections would cost approximately $200,000 each.

The Duluth City Council will vote later this month on the list of items before seeking official county partnership.

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Angie McBrayer, ex-wife of James Aaron McBrayer, leans her head on her son Sam McBrayer as she and her three children and two grandchildren (from left) Jackson McBrayer, 3, Piper Jae McBrayer, 7, Katy Isaza, and Jordan McBrayer, visit the grave of James McBrayer, Thursday, November 20, 2025, in Tifton. He died after being restrained by Tift County sheriff's deputies on April 24, 2019. His ex-wife witnessed the arrest and said she thought the deputies were being rough but did not imagine that McBrayer would die. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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