Summit County will upgrade traffic signals at 36 intersections on the corridor between North Revere Road and downtown Akron with a $2 million federal street-safety grant, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes that the Akron Beacon Journal reported on Friday.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the money through its Safe Streets and Roads for All program. The grant will fund the county’s Criminal Justice Fiber Ring Adaptive Signalization Project, which links traffic signals to the county’s fiber network so signal timing can adjust to real traffic conditions instead of running on fixed cycles.
The corridor was chosen because of its crash history. According to the release Sykes’s office issued, the stretch recorded more than 4,200 crashes between 2019 and 2023. Twelve of those crashes were fatal, and 58 ended in suspected serious injuries…