The Roswell City Council has awarded a design contract valued at $53,080 for a pedestrian hybrid beacon – a type of crosswalk signal – to be installed on Alpharetta Street (Ga. 9) downtown.
Michael Baker International, an engineering consulting firm, will draw up plans for the installation between Magnolia and Norcross streets.
“The design of the (signal) is needed to fulfill the permit requirements by the Georgia Department of Transportation,” staff said in a report to the council.
In November, the Community Development and Transportation Committee directed staff to expedite the project by specifying a span wire for the signal, eventually to be replaced by a mast arm, staff said. Since then, however, staff located mast arms in stock that had been ordered for a school zone but never installed.
A pedestrian hybrid beacon has two red lenses above a single yellow lens. When activated by a pedestrian, the signal displays a yellow flashing light, then a steady yellow, and finally a steady red to drivers and a “walk” signal to the person on foot.
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