PLEASE 'box out' this crosswalk, making it 4-sided.
When walking up the hill from the city lot/parking deck (past the entrance to Made), the sidewalk is on the left side of the road. However, there is no crosswalk there. Only on the other 3 sides.
The speed limit is 25 mph here, but cars are frequently going much faster, as they've finally cleared the light at Milton Ave, or they are rushing down the hill to make the green.
This is all compounded by poor visibility as cars top the hill coming from Pure, as well as pedestrians being in the shadows of the trees along Roswell St and harder to see.
I have had more close calls here than anywhere else in Alpharetta.

Thank you for reporting this. We'll check the light bars and make necessary changes to improve their performance. Also, we'll look into and further evaluate installation of additional crosswalks at the intersection of Roswell Street and Old Roswell Street to improve pedestrians safety.

I wish I could add videos here to prove what's happening, but tonight the lights would not activate at all.

I know in my last post, I said this couldn't have been made worse. I was wrong, and I'm sorry for that, it has been made significantly worse.

Please have Public Works fix this ASAP before it's Public Safety who is being called to this intersection

The light at this crosswalk is still not working. I fortunate enough to endure some crude hand gestures from a passerby this evening while I was in the crosswalk. If the city is going to refuse to fix this issue, the least you could do is park some public safety officers outside this crosswalk. It's not hard and I'd be happy to provide multiple solutions to this problem for free.

Since the City is unwilling to provide any status update, I will. The City has attached new "Stop for Pedestrians in Crosswalks signs" at the intersection, but there are still problems.

1) The signs cannot be seen because there is wildly inadequate street lighting at this intersection
and
2) The primary issue I reported of the sign lights not working is still valid - the lights still don't work.

I'm not a public engineer but I believe in the principle of "do no harm" and week after week when this crosswalk signal does not work, the City continues to roll the dice with the lives of its residents.

A permanent fix must be implemented. Now.

At a minimum, the City should tell us what the plan is instead of ignoring the problem.

The subject lights are solar powered. Since the issue was first reported, Public Works has twice replaced the batteries and/or other components. Unfortunately, in both cases operation failed within a day or two of the work being completed.

Currently, we are working with a contractor who will be performing directional boring so that underground utilities can be connected and the system converted to AC power.

Thank you Alpharetta! Also, apologies for my aggressive tone in previous comments.

Are you considering 'boxing' out the crosswalk to connect the sidewalk at Made to the sidewalk in front of La Casa?
(Just as you did at Pure to connect with the sidewalk from the NW to the NE corner of the Roswell/Marietta St intersection.)

As a part of the intersection safety improvement, a crosswalk with appropriate pedestrian crossing lights will be installed to connect the sidewalk at Made to the sidewalk in front of La Casa.

Thank you for your prompt response to this matter. Looks like this will be a big improvement! You all rock.

We had to remove two flashing lights today in order to run underground directional boring and pour new concrete bases. Electronic message boards and warning signs have been provided for drivers to stop for pedestrians in crosswalk.

The new flashing lights and a crosswalk have been installed, and are fully operational.

The City of Alpharetta has resolved this request.

The workers told me that you would be adding a crosswalk on the north side of this intersection to make it a box. Is this still the plan? The sidewalk on the Made side does not have a crosswalk at the end, and there is no sidewalk on the south side of the Made/public parking driveway.

Thank you for contacting the City of Alpharetta. Your service request ID is #7551.

Thank you for your feedback. We’ll check to make sure the crosswalk lights function properly.

We have installed additional light bars to improve pedestrians safety.

Will you please answer the question? Will you be "boxing out" the north side of this crosswalk at this intersection? The sidewalk coming up thr west side dead ends.

Hey JDE - I walked by recently and found that it has been boxed out now, complete with cross walk signals on south and north sides.

Thanks to Alpharetta for making this improvements!

Excellent. Thanks for the update!

The City of Alpharetta has resolved this request.

Thanks for fixing this request!