Road Projects: Improving Your Commute

Johns Creek sits at a crossroads between major highway and interstate arteries. We are surrounded by significant growth that increases pressure on our roads’ capacities. We recently allocated $3.18 million to fund an additional eight traffic improvement projects to the Fiscal Year 2015 list of 19 previously approved and ongoing projects.

Additional traffic projects approved by City Council

• Medlock Bridge Road from St. Ives Country Club to State Bridge Road – creating a southbound lane by re-striping and minor widening
• Medlock Bridge Road from State Bridge Road to St. Ives Country Club – creating a northbound lane by re-striping and minor widening, plus an additional right-turn lane at State Bridge Road
• Medlock Bridge from Wilson Road to Johns Creek Parkway – creating a northbound lane by re-striping and minor widening
• State Bridge Road – removing medians and striping to extend the westbound, right-turn between Whole Foods and Medlock Bridge Road
• State Bridge Road – extending a westbound, left-turn lane onto Medlock Bridge Road.
• Kimball Bridge Road, westbound from Jones Bridge Road to Kimball Bridge Parkway – restriping to create an extra lane
• Jones Bridge Road at Waters Road – “Florida T” on Jones Bridge Road (using cones to shield through-traffic in a T-intersection)
• Findley Road at Medlock Bridge Road – installing a new traffic signal

The city is also partnering with the Georgia Department of Transportation on some major projects, including replacing the bridges on Parsons Road and on Bell Road and widening Old Alabama Road, between Medlock Bridge and Buice roads.

We’re not only adding pavement. The city is employing software for an Intelligent Traffic System, a program that coordinates traffic signals. By implementing special software, installing back-up batteries to ensure signals work during power outages and by connecting traffic signals by fiber-optic cable to a Traffic Control Center at City Hall, the system will help move traffic more efficiently.

Johns Creek is the first city in Georgia and the eighth in America to team up with Waze, the world’s largest, crowd-sourced, traffic-navigation phone app, to provide motorists timely notice of road construction and incident data in the city.

The city will share information with Waze, such as road closings, major accidents and events that affect traffic. In return, Waze will help transportation planners better understand traffic patterns so we know better where to allocate future funds.

Completed 2015 traffic projects

• Resurfacing 34 subdivisions, totaling 34.22 linear miles
• Widened Old Alabama from Nesbit Ferry Road to Jones Bridge Road, from two to four lanes
• Added intersection improvements at Haynes Bridge and Jones Bridge roads  
• Implemented software for signals on Medlock Bridge Road to automatically adjust the timing based on traffic conditions
• Intersection improvements Jones Bridge at Waters, Buice and at Morton roads
• Improvements at Medlock Crossing at State Bridge, on Old Alabama at Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center, and at Boles and Abbotts Bridge roads.
• Widened Old Alabama from Nesbit to Jones Bridge roads.

We are doing everything we can to move you through Johns Creek, employing traditional solutions, exploring new ideas, and leveraging the latest in technology. This will remain a top priority of ours this coming fiscal year and as part of our new, 10-year budget projection. To learn more, visit JohnsCreekGa.gov/Services/PublicWorks/TrafficImprovements.