Center St - Traffic Calming & Safety Improvements
Center St: 61st St. to 51st St./Saddle Creek Rd
Center St - Traffic Calming & Safety Improvements
Center Street is scheduled for resurfacing this Summer. As part of the project, Public Works will install a mix of permanent and quick-build safety improvements between 61st Street and 51st Street/Saddle Creek. These upgrades aim to help enhance safety, support mobility, and assist in ensuring everyone, whether walking, biking, or driving, can get home safely.
This safety project supports the City’s Vision Zero Action Plan, which aims to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2045. Center Street has been identified as a Priority Project due to a history of speeding, crashes, and other safety concerns.
Planned upgrades include a combination of quick-build access control, new concrete medians, improved crosswalks, and painted curb
extensions. The City is also coordinating with OPPD to install additional lighting in key locations in the future
Project Features
- Safer Speeds: Reconfigured intersections and traffic calming measures are designed to physically slow vehicle movement and speeds, increase driver attentiveness and reduce the risk of severe crashes.
- Enhanced Visibility: New painted curb extensions, crosswalks and upgraded intersection lighting improve visibility, shorten crossing distances, encourage slower turning movements, and make it easier for drivers to see crossing vulnerable road users.
- Reduced Conflict Points: Access control measures, achieved through a combination of concrete and modular curb/post medians with right-in/right-out restrictions, reduce the risk of severe angle (T-bone) and left-turn crashes. These improvements also enhance traffic flow and promote more predictable, organized movement for all road users.
- Construction is anticipated to begin Late Summer 2025. Once installed, the modular curbing and posts will be routinely monitored and adjusted as needed to maintain safety and effectiveness.
