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Tractor-trailer ban indicated by new signs in Akron
Updated: August 21, 2010, 2:36 AM
Signs will be posted at two intersections banning tractor-trailers from those routes in Akron, the Village Board decided Monday.
The action followed discussion at the board’s Oct. 5 work session on a request from a resident to curb tractor-trailer and truck delivery traffic on Eckerson Avenue.
Public Works Superintendent Robert W. Kowalik was asked to study the matter. Monday, Mayor Carl E. Patterson initiated further discussion of the issue before the board agreed to adopt a motion by Trustee E. Peter Forrestel directing Kowalik to post signs at the northbound intersections of Churchill Street and Eckerson, and Marshall Avenue and Eckerson.
In other business, the board agreed on three projects to submit to Erie County for community development block grant funding: the Rural Transit Van, a water line and other improvements for Marshall Avenue and installing a sidewalk on Skyline Drive near Newstead Town Park. The latter project would be in conjunction with the town.
The board had considered seeking funds for the rehabilitation of the State Street Bridge, but Clerk-Treasurer Daniel P. Borchert said he considers it very unlikely that the project would qualify.
Patterson also asked Kowalik to “put some options together” on alleviating a drainage problem on a section of Skyline after a resident of that road said her gravel driveway was being flooded because of runoff from a residence across the road and above her property.
Village Attorney Daniel D. Shonn Jr. said that the village cannot do any work on private property and that the property from which storm water is flowing met state code on slope and grading improvements made recently.
Shonn advised the board that the village could examine whether there are problems on the road with storm water runoff that could cause vehicles to hydroplane during downpours and result in accidents.
The board also set trick-or-treating from 6 to 8 p. m. Oct. 31. The fire company will sound its whistle to signal the start and end of the Halloween activity.
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