Madison Avenue Traffic Signal Project Slated
The estimated $2.5 million project to upgrade the traffic signals on Madison Avenue — a project not unlike last summer’s Detroit Avenue project — could begin in 2014.
Green means go and red means stop. City council began an effort to proceed with caution — and some questions — during its preliminary discussion about the proposed traffic signalization project on Madison Avenue. The estimated $2.5 million plan to upgrade the traffic signals on Madison Avenue — a project not unlike last summer’s undertaking on Detroit Avenue — is expected to begin in 2014. Based on a recent traffic study, five of the 20 traffic signals on Madison Avenue are “unwarranted,” meaning that they would be removed unless Lakewood paid 100 percent of the local share to keep them. “People will wonder why their streets will not get one, and their neighbors will,” said Shawn Juris, Ward 3 councilman and the chairman of the public …
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Jesse
12:24 pm on Thursday, January 31, 2013
I can't see how the signal at Belle & Madison is unwarranted. Belle seems to me a regularly used secondary, north-south thoroughfare in Lakewood, especially with access to the hospital from it and Charter One at that intersection. more ›