AKRON, Ohio — The city of Akron is planning to pave approximately 54 miles of roadway this season with $5.474 million budgeted for this year’s resurfacing program and approximately $1.5 million for equipment replacement.
So which streets are included? Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan released a 10-page list that highlights all of the impacted roadways. You can review that full list in the document below.
The paving list and schedule are subject to change, the mayor’s office noted, based on circumstances like weather and underground utility work.
Here's the full list of streets on Akron's resurfacing list:
“If streets are being used as highly traveled detour routes for various construction projects, resurfacing on those roads may be delayed,” according to a press release from Mayor Horrigan’s office. “The Alternate streets are only performed if additional funding becomes available and time allows.”
Signage will be posted on each street several days before resurfacing work is scheduled to begin with traffic maintained “as much as possible during this work,” but on-street parking will be prohibited on the dates posted.
“By the end of this year, the City of Akron will have paved close to 400 centerline miles of roadway since I took office,” said Mayor Horrigan. “It will take many more years to realize the full impact of increased focus and funding on our roadways, but we are in a much better place with our roadways now than we were 5 or 10 years ago. I want to thank all of our service crews who make this improvement possible each year.”
In creating the resurfacing list each year, Mayor Horrigan’s office says the city grades the condition of each street and paves the “worst first,” taking into consideration traffic conditions and clustering streets together to reduce mobilization costs and maximize efficiency.
Editor's note: Video in the player above was originally published in an unrelated story on April 4, 2023.
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