Plan proposed to ease congestion at Elmer Road and Bannister intersection

An unidentified speaker (S1) at a Forsyth County meeting described plans to ease chronic congestion at the intersection of Elmer Road and Bannister. "This is probably 1 of the worst intersections in my district," the speaker said, and said a bypass and signal would redirect traffic away from the existing junction.

The speaker said the proposed bypass would originate from Doc Bramblett and terminate at a new traffic signal just south of Naaman Wallace Road, allowing traffic from Elmer Road to avoid the congested intersection. Officials also described a separate, accelerated project with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to extend the turn lane from Bannister Road toward Doc Ramlet/Ramblett (the transcript includes varying spellings).

Funding for the improvements was described as coming from SPLOS projects. "These are all SPLOS projects, so we thank our voters for approving the SPLOS," the speaker said, adding that the county bonded using SPLOS money and that "it is paid back by the SPLOS money," which the speaker characterized as "no cost to taxpayers." The speaker said using bond financing backed by SPLOS allows the county to "jump start a lot of these projects and deliver them earlier to our residents."

The transcript records the proposal and funding explanation but does not show a formal vote, a motion, or additional details about timelines, engineering studies, right-of-way needs or exact cost estimates. The speaker’s remarks include inconsistent spellings for some names and locations in the transcript (noted below). The transcript does not identify the speaker by name or official title.

Next steps were not recorded in the provided transcript; the meeting remarks presented the bypass and GDOT turn-lane extension as planned priorities and described the funding approach, but no formal action or schedule appeared in the recorded segments.