For the next month, the City of Akron is inviting public feedback about of its $11 million project to transform Main Street.
The project will add bike lanes and landscaping, replace infrastructure underground and generally 鈥渢idy up鈥� the road according to Christine Jonke. She says they鈥檝e already incorporated ideas from business owners into the plans for dedicated lanes for parking or delivery vehicles. But they鈥檙e also asking how to make the construction process itself less painful.
鈥淪ignage is a huge thing. One of the things we did with phase one is we鈥檝e got boards in the lobbies of all the buildings, so just people passing through can see a schedule [and] see what鈥檚 coming up in the future.鈥�
A public open house last night was sparsely attended, but Jonke says that may be because her department has already invited so much public input on how to improve Main Street. Feedback can still be submitted through December 17 or by emailing cjonke@akronohio.gov.
