Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Authorities Monday afternoon temporarily shut down I-75 in both directions.
A Dallas woman has been arrested in connection with a robbery and high-speed chase that forced authorities this afternoon to temporarily shut down Interstate 75 in both directions. About 10:54 a.m. today, 39-year-old Ancely Faye Green walked into the Acworth SunTrust Bank at 1755 Mars Hill Rd., claimed in a note that she had a bomb and demanded money, said Officer Mike Bowman with the Cobb County Police Department. When she received an undisclosed amount of cash, she drove away from the bank in a black vehicle. Officers spotted her and tried to initiate a traffic stop. Green, however, "refused to pull over and attempted to elude officers for several miles," Bowman said. Authorities pursued her southbound on Mars Hill Road to Macland Road; …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The state drops plans for a public-private partnership to ease highway congestion through Cobb.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
If you were geared up for toll lanes along Interstates 75 and 575 in a few years, well, not so fast. The state Transportation Board pulled the plug Wednesday on the public-private partnership planned to propel the Northwest Corridor Project. The head of the state committee overseeing the $1.1 billion project, Brandon Beach, announced the decision in a two-sentence statement posted on the state Department of Transportation website. The state thus canceled a bidding process that was launched with great fanfare this fall and was supposed to end in February. It also might have doomed a project that the state DOT started working on a decade ago. Three groups of contractors were preparing bids, the Atlanta Business Chronicle said: West by …
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The third and final phase of the $23 million road expansion is projected to be completed in two years.
Construction intended to relieve traffic congestion by widening Jiles to a four-lane road entered its third and final phase Monday. Workers and heavy landscaping equipment will soon be seen tearing up the area between Baker Road and Highway 41, the last stretch of road to be renovated over the next two years. Project History The project in its entirety was first placed before the City Council of Kennesaw around 1996, according to Mayor Mark Mathews. Since then, it has undergone several phases of approval and review, until it was ultimately granted funding through the 2005 SPLOST. The bill is projected to settle around $23 million by the time construction is completed on July 18, 2013. This final phase will make up $11 million of the total…
