Graham Road Widening Slated for Next Year in Cuyahoga Falls, Stow
The road widening and traffic improvement project will cost $4.3 million and could cut into the properties of some local businesses, including Krieger's Health Foods Market.
Last year, Cuyahoga Falls and Stow city officials asked the Ohio Department of Transportation to call off the Graham Road widening project. This past December, ODOT ruled that the plan was moving forward. On Wednesday night at Stow City Hall, the proposed next steps were laid out by Arcadis design engineer Shane Gault. Gault said the project was given the green light due to a lack of safety and an abundance of traffic congestion, and offered facts, figures, graphs and matrices to back up his assertions. Here’s the breakdown: To fix these problems, Arcadis put together a study comprised of options that could be tailored to the sections of road where construction will take place, he said. Under these various options, the road would be …
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Larry Kinnan
10:54 am on Saturday, March 17, 2012
My wife and I attended the meeting at Stow City Hall. We are 20 year Stow residents but are long time customers of Krieger's. The Alternative 5 presented reduced the area of dispute at Krieger's to 4 feet with the possibility of reducing the disputed area to 2 feet. The Krieger's attorney stated that they are willing to discuss resolving this final area of dispute. What was not covered in the … more ›