July 31, 2024, Press Release from the the American Red Cross: INDIANA, July 31, 2024 — The American Red Cross offers this checklist you can follow to help make sure your student is safe as they go back to the classroom.
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The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) District 1 announced multiple reconstruction and resurfacing projects for Interstate 75. The projects will span from Napoleon Road to State Route 235 in Allen and Hancock counties. Traffic lights on the highway will also be replaced with LED bulbs. The current bulb system has to be replaced every four years, but with the new LED bulbs, changes will happen every fourteen years instead.
The City of Lima is continuing its efforts to improve traffic flow making it safer and more efficient. The intersection of Elm Street and Central Avenue is now equipped with a traffic signal. The need was seen after Elm Street traffic was converted from one-way to two-way several years ago. The increase in traffic was causing a back up in vehicles at the stop sign on Central. The project was paid for by Ohio Public Works funds and was done in time for another project in the works for 2020.
They are a mechanical invention designed to regulate, not strangulate, the flow of traffic. Yet some Lima residents aren't too happy with area traffic lights.