Residents are being asked to help officials in North Fulton and Gwinnett counties choose one of four alternatives for a pedestrian bridge over the Chattahoochee River.
The Rogers Bridge project is in the concept design and environmental studies phase, expected to go until next spring, Johns Creek officials said. There’s an old truss bridge at the site, 228 feet long, built around 1900 and taken out of service in the 1970s. It has no floor and carries a pipeline across the river.
An online survey presents four alternatives: Rehabilitate the existing span, $5.1 million; retain the existing span and build a new bridge-within-a-bridge for pedestrians, $4.6 million; replace the present bridge with a replica, $4.2 million; or build an entirely new tied-arch bridge, $4.2 million.
The bridge would restore a pedestrian connection between the future Cauley Creek Park in Johns Creek, and Rogers Bridge Park in Duluth. The project involves the two cities and Fulton and Gwinnett counties.
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