NOACA Awards City $3 Million For Street Improvements!!!!

[Bill Call]

According to NOACA:

"To encourage walkers, the plan calls for benches, pedestrian-scaled lighting, uniformly colored sidewalks, enhanced crosswalks and removal of parallel parking to allow for more sidewalk space.

For bicyclists, the proposal includes "sharrows" to emphasize bicyclists' right to travel in the roadway, wayfinding signage and parking racks. The center left turn lanes would be restriped from 12' to 11', "affording that extra foot in the travel lanes so motorists and bicyclists can share more of the road."

Also:

"A comprehensive landscaping plan has also been developed to reduce "the heat island effect of buildings and paving, encouraging walking instead of driving," mitigate the "negative effect of motorists' exhausts" and assist with storm water management."

Here is a PDF of the proposal:

http://www.noaca.org/cedarfairmount09.pdf

[Matthew Lee]

Am I missing the link from today? The PDF is from November 2009. Is this new news?

[Bill Call]

Am I missing the link from today? The PDF is from November 2009. Is this new news?

Here is the link for the recent article announcing the award:

http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-heig ... _3_mi.html

Since the City is set to spend $2 million on a fresh coat of asphalt for Madison Avenue I thought people might want to see what is being done in Cleveland Heights for $3 million.

Of course Lakewood is inelligible for NOACA grants of that kind so if we wanted to do something like what is being done on Fairmount we would have to use our own money.

[Jim O'Bryan]

Of course Lakewood is inelligible for NOACA grants of that kind so if we wanted to do something like what is being done on Fairmount we would have to use our own money.

How so?


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[Bill Call]

Of course Lakewood is inelligible for NOACA grants of that kind so if we wanted to do something like what is being done on Fairmount we would have to use our own money.

How so?

NOACA did provide $50,000 or so to "study" Madison Avenue improvements and provided partial funding for street lights and signage on Detroit. However, roughly 5 times that amount was spent by NOACA on Lorain Avenue in Fairview. During the last three years or so almost $7 million was spent along the Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights border area for actual street repair and improvements.

Lakewood is being shortchanged.

http://www.noaca.org/priorprojplan.html

[Jim O'Bryan]

Bill

While I could comment on amount of traffic on Lorain versus Detroit, and it is being a true
4 lane with parking on both sides of the streets at times, it would just be speculation.

I will be working in Cleveland Heights a little this week with the Heights Observer, let me see
what they think about the NOACA dollars they got.

There has to be a reason, traffic, age, maybe just they ask for more and got it. Who knows.

Lakewood has been shortchanged for a long time, this we both know. Now lets find out why.

When we asked the TV Stations about their coverage of Lakewood, it ended up being...
Lakewood was close enough to the TV Stations that it made it accessible for using it as
examples, and they crews like the food here. So they would make a shirt trip, have lunch,
and make a news report about some hideous news using Lakewood as the back drop.

It was an eye opener for me.

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