NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio — When looking to the New Year, North Olmsted Mayor Nicole Dailey Jones promises residents the completion of various projects with others just getting started.
“In 2025, Clague Road will be completed,” she said.
“Some of the work has wrapped up, but we still have at least another five months or so.”
The multi-phase Clague Road construction includes an already completed sanitary force main replacement.
The $1.4 million sewer project — involving the installation of a 16-inch diameter sanitary force main under tree lawns or sidewalks — took place on the east side of Clague Road between Lorain Road. and LeBern Drive.
The next phase included the widening of the intersection at Maple Ridge Road to allow for a northbound left turn lane.
“The dedicated turn lane is going to be so helpful to control that traffic,” she said. “And we’re happy we were able to get that force main put in before the road needed to be dug up.
“We kind of pushed that project forward so that the residents and in the commuters traveling through there every day don’t have to deal with construction three years from now.”
Administered by the Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works, the $2.6 million repaving project was award to CATTS Construction Co.
Next spring, the detour will be set up again to allow for the resurfacing from Lorain Road north to the city limit.
“This is definitely a project that is worth waiting for and will be so nice when done,” she said.
One road project scheduled to begin in 2025 and completed in 2026 is the repaving of Lorain Road from the Stearns Road intersection to Canterbury Road.
The Cuyahoga County effort also includes adding safety enhancements.
There’s also North Olmsted City Schools currently building a new PreK-5 elementary school on Lorain Road.
The plan is to reconfigure the existing three-way intersection with a stoplight at Walter Road.
“Part of the original conversations with the school district contemplated the city upgrading the infrastructure there to add a light that would then go four ways once the school was complete,” she said. “However, what we’ve noticed already are safety issues.
“The volume of trucks coming in and out of that site for these past few months has been enormous.”
With that in mind, the four-way light will be added in the first quarter of 2025.
Overall, the mayor said residents can expect 2025 to be a year of growth for North Olmsted.
“These projects that we’ve been talking about and planning for a couple of years now, we’re starting to see finally coming up out of the ground, literally,” she said.
“So that’s exciting. And, overall, the message is good things to come here in 2025.”
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