Every Strongsville Traffic Signal To Be Upgraded

STRONGSVILLE, OH — All 57 of Strongsville's traffic signals will be upgraded thanks to a $1.4 million grant from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA). Work on the project will commence this year.

The project was originally slated to start in 2022, the city said. Mayor Tom Perciak and NOACA worked together to secure the change in schedule.

“We were able to get funding moved up three years, which will allow us to finally get started on this project,” Perciak said.

The upgraded traffic signals will be better synchronized, allowing their cycles to regulate based on traffic flow, the city said. Engineering for the project has already been completed. The next step in the project will be finding a construction manager, finalizing Ohio Department of Transportation contracts, and then bidding out the project, City Engineer Ken Mikula said.

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All 57 of the city's traffic signals will be upgraded through the project. That means the lights will be replaced with LEDs, replacing or refurbishing poles (which will now be black in color), upgrading pedestrian facilities to contemporary standards, and upgrading computer software connected to the lights.

"The new centralized system will be have “adaptive” technology, so it can self-adjust in reaction to traffic volume, using a combination of video cameras, radar and traditional traffic loops. The city has been working on the signal project since 2013, when it hired TMS Engineers to prepare plans. Officials have been seeking funding for the project ever since," the city said on its website.

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