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Miles-Harper project beats winter weather
(by Sali McSherry - December 02, 2010)
Miles-Harper project beats winter weather
By SALI McSHERRY
Roadwork throughout Orange Village, including most improvements at the intersection for Miles and Harper roads, has been completed this fall.
All phases of the roadway widening, as well as construction of new concrete and asphalt drive aprons, have been finished, according to Mayor Kathy U. Mulcahy. New Americans With Disabilities Act ramps and sidewalks have been installed at the intersection, along with a new driveway at the Miles Farmers Market.
Coordinated by the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office, the project began in the summer. The cost to Orange is about $215,000, with Solon, which also borders Miles Road, matching that amount. The county will pay about $430,000, half of the total cost of about $860,000, according to Orange Village Engineer Brian Mader.
The county installed an eastbound right-turn lane from Miles Road to Harper Road.
The area has become busy with more traffic due to several factors, including the development of Shoppes of Solon plaza on the Solon side of Miles Road, according to village officials.
Following complaints by some Orange residents, Ms. Mulcahy said she wanted to make it safer for vehicle and pedestrian traffic on Miles Road, between Lander and Brainard roads.
Work on additional traffic-light signalization will continue through the winter, along with trenching, boring conduits, the mounting of controller boxes and signal supports and mast arms and pulling conductor cable to the pull boxes, according to the engineer. The county also is erecting a manufactured-block retaining wall at the Mount Hope Cemetery, which is at the southwest corner of the intersection in Solon. Landscaping restoration and punch-list items also are being completed.
Miles Farmers Market is paying a portion of the stop-and-go traffic light.
Ms. Mulcahy said that neighbors in the area told her they want their children to be able to safely walk to Shoppes of Solon and Miles Farmers Market. It's difficult for motorists to turn east on Miles Road from several housing developments on the north side in Orange due to a lack of gaps in the traffic stream, according to a study done over two years ago by TMS Engineering, of Stow.
Other roadwork, including asphalt rejuvenation, which is used to extend the pavement life and reseal existing road surfaces, was applied recently to Brainard Road, West and East Orange Hill drives, Oxford Court, Sterncrest Drive, Capital Hill and Nob Hill, according to the engineer.
Pavement Technology, of Cleveland, was awarded the contract for asphalt rejuvenation at a cost of $24,000. The village infrastructure levy budget for rejuvenation is $29,000 per year.
Concrete repairs on various trouble areas of village roads also were completed.
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