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Regular Council Meeting . <br />8/16/93 • - . . <br />Page ATine <br />VVe will have people starting at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. Mr: Chokel said <br />the best- suggestion they received was to widen Wilson Mills Road, get a dual left turn <br />into Progressive and form two extra lanes at the Progressive Drive to accept this traffic. <br />We had an engineer embark on irying to draw that. I brought 9 copies (& one for the <br />record) of the drawing. What the plan do?'s is widens Wilson Mills Road by taking <br />some of Progressive's fr ontage (and only Progressive's frontage) and extending the road <br />south. Progressive will donate its land frontage needed to widen it. We have paid <br />$20,000 for the engineering of the plans and_ the traffic survey and have offered to pay <br />25% of the consiruction costs. This is *not a project that Progressive can do, we do not <br />own the road; the County owns the road and is the one that must say yes, we will let <br />you improve or widen this road. But, ihe County looks to the City or the Village to get <br />permission and to be asked to widen it. . Mr. Chokel said they talked to Gity Officials in Highland Heights, Mayfield Village and <br />the County; they are irying. to broker an agreement between the political parties. Mr. <br />Chokel said he thinks the plan is good. One thing it does not do well is fix Worton <br />Park-for those people coming north on Worton Park onto Wilson Mills who try to turn <br />left (turning west)-that is going to be a hard problem. Unless you put a signal in there <br />or widen the road even further up in that area, it is still going to be a problem. Every <br />time we talked to people about the signaling, we were told the lights are too close <br />together. In-the last few days we have tried to get the legislative rule--where it says <br />how many feet apart the lights are. Mr. Chokel said he does not know that rule; they <br />could not find that rule. If Mr. Hovancsek happens to know what that is, it will shed <br />some light on things. <br />Mr. Hovancsek said it is not a rule; it is just good traffic engineering. You don't <br />signalize intersections close together because it significantly reduces the effecEiveness of <br />the entire traffic flow on the street. -It makes an-unsafe condition rather than a safe <br />condition. Mr. Chokel said we have put out a suggestion, the suggestion was drawn and the <br /> <br />funding for that suggestion was also suggested. The funding was 50% County, 25% <br />City, 25% Progressive (and that was our suggestion.) Normally on a County road for an <br />improvement, the County pays 50% and the City pays 50% unless they can get Issue II <br />money from the State. We welcome the City trying to get Issue II money. <br />A resident said she loves what they. have done to the end of her street but hates not <br />being able to get out of her area (either to go east or west.) She said since you have been <br />there, you have been a very good neighbor; but with 80 residents in Worton Park, she <br />cannot be the only one to take her life in her hands to get out of Worton Park traffic. <br />Something has to be done about that.