The Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 is looking for public input on a future project in Columbus Grove.
They are looking to improve the intersection at State Route 65 and Sycamore Street in the village. What started as just an improvement of the traffic light has turned into an addition of 3 turning lanes and additional pedestrian space at the railroad crossing on Sycamore Street. The turn lanes will allow cars to line up when a train is crossing Sycamore Street and not hold up traffic on State Route 65 which will hopefully decrease accidents.
"Hoping by the new additional lanes that we're adding that that will help avoid some of those queues and allow some through traffic which will then hopefully maybe eliminate some rear-end crashes and some angle crashes," said Eric Scheckelholff, ODOT District 1 design engineer.
The project has state and federal funding and is estimated at 1.4 million dollars at this point. The process is still early on and they are asking for public input. You can make comments at https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/projects/projects/107760.
