Traffic Signal Warrants
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Traffic Signal in City of Solon
The April 16th, 2009 hard copy issue of The Solon Times (Volume 32, Number 32) published an article titled Finally, city sheds light on ‘funneling‘ by Sue Reid. The article reported that City of Solon is in the process of potentially considering and approving installation of traffic signals at SOM Center Road/Lisa Lane intersection and SOM Center Road/Blue Heron Drive intersection at a cost of approximately $170,000.
SOM Center Road is a four lane arterial street through City of Solon and City of Twinsburg. SOM Center Road narrows to two lanes in City of Twinsburg.
South bound traffic: The decrease in the number of lanes (from 4 to 2) of SOM Center Road necessitates merging of traffic and this merging is referred to as the funneling effect, I think.
North bound traffic: North bound traffic on SOM Center Road, from City of Twinsburg towards City of Solon encounters the increase in lanes (from 2 to 4). These wider and additional lanes provide an incentive to the motorists to speed above the posted speed limit of 35 mph.
Traffic experiences delays when making turns from local side streets, Lisa Lane and Blue Heron Drive, to arterial SOM Center Road.
Proposed City of Solon Traffic Signals near Oakview Estates and Summerset Subdivisions
Click on the aerial picture to enlarge it. Check out the proximity between Lisa Lane/SOM Center Road intersection and Blue Heron Drive/SOM Center Road intersection near the city limit. Some City of Solon residents in Oakview Estates subdivision and Summerset subdivision on the south side of City of Solon understandably felt unsafe, at certain times, while making turns onto SOM Center Road. A couple of important lessons for urban planners and traffic engineers here, I think.
City of Solon Traffic Signal System
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If you are home buyer, one additional consideration should be safe entrance into and exit through the subdivision. A signalized exit and entrance provides for the safest traffic conditions. I reckon Summerset subdivision and Oakview Estates subdivision residents in City of Solon should be mighty pleased with this, not sure what traffic on SOM Center Road would think about it.
Do you need a real estate agent?
Summerset subdivision in Solon has one of the best designed homes that I have ever seen. This Solon real estate property owned by a self described fussy owner. I was impressed with the design but what impressed me about the owners of this home was that they were not using a realtor to sell this home.
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