Scott Schmid from the Springfield-Clark County Transportation Coordinating Committee will discuss the project during a work session at 6:30 p.m. today at the City Hall Forum, 76 E. High St. The formal meeting will be held at 7 p.m.
The project — which includes $1.5 million in federal money and $300,000 in city matching funds — will convert Derr Road from four lanes to three lanes between Home and Villa roads, including adding a center turn-lane and bike lanes in both directions.
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TCC’s consultant, Burgess and Niple, completed a corridor feasibility study on Derr Road between Home and Villa roads, as well as Home Road between Ohio 4 and North Limestone Street.
The project won’t create delays, the recently released report says, but it will reduce travel speeds and improve safety. The nearby bus stops won’t have an effect on traffic in the corridor, it says.
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About 10,000 cars drive on Derr Road between Home and Villa roads each day, according to TCC traffic counts. About 15,000 cars travel on Home Road between Ohio 4 and North Limestone Street each day.
In the study’s area, there were about 187 crashes between 2013 and 2015, including 67 injury crashes, 120 property crashes and one fatality.
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$1.8 million: Possible cost to decrease Derr Road from four lanes to three, including a center lane, between Home and Villa roads.
$300,000: Springfield's local match for the road projects.
187: The amount of crashes from 2013 through 2015 on Derr Road between Home and Villa roads and Home Road between Ohio 4 and North Limestone Street.
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