The Marietta Daily Journal – Kennesaw sets SPLOST wish list

KENNESAW — Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews said the bulk of the $30.6 million his city would receive under a renewed sales tax program would go toward improving conditions along busy or dangerous streets.

The Cobb Board of Commissioners is expected to finalize a project list July 22, and voters would decide whether to renew a 1 percent special purpose local option sales tax to fund those projects Nov. 4.

Chief among the mayor’s concerns is the Sardis Street overpass, a juncture at which two roads and a railroad converge.

“For the city, No. 1 (priority) is probably going to be our Sardis Street overpass, which is over the railroad, and which will help the very dangerous intersection at Cherokee and Main,” Mathews said.

The proposed project would “create a new overpass and new access to Main Street, without being bogged down by the train and the very unsafe crossing.”

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Kennesaw sets SPLOST wish list.