Roswell sets open house on Rucker Road makeover
Roswell is to hold a public information open house Thursday evening to gather comment on a plan to redo Rucker Road to match improvements to be done by Alpharetta on its portion of the thoroughfare.
The open house is to begin at 6 p.m. at Restoration Church, 410 Rucker Road, Alpharetta. Rucker currently is a two-lane thoroughfare with urban and rural shoulders, right-turn lanes and intermittent sidewalks, officials said.
Roswell plans to widen the road to 12-foot-wide lanes in each direction, and add a center left-turn lane 12 feet wide, a 24-inch curb and gutter, and sidewalks 8 feet wide on both sides of the street from Houze Road (Ga. 140) to Spring Place Lane at the Alpharetta city limits. Roswell also plans to improve the traffic signal at Houze Road.
Alpharetta, meanwhile, plans to redo Rucker from its city limits to Wills Road. The job is to begin in mid-2017 and take about two years. Roswell plans to complete its work in conjunction with Alpharetta, officials said.
The anticipated cost of construction is about $2.3 million. Roswell plans to use revenues generated by the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST), approved by voters on Nov. 8, to pay its share of the project, while Alpharetta will use proceeds from a May 2016 bond referendum.
