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Upgrades coming to Dorr Street

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TOLEDO, Ohio -

It will take a while, but drivers along Dorr Street near the University of Toledo will see improvements to make the road safer. But that work will not begin for another couple years.

No matter what time of day you travel Dorr Street near UT you can experience the threat traffic poses.   Drivers speed faster than the 40 mile per hour limit and students have to dodge traffic to get across Dorr Street to attend class.

Student Ryan Will told 13abc reporter Bill Hormann, "It is kind of scary crossing at some points because cars coming each way."

And with all the new development along Dorr, there's more stopped traffic trying to make turns.  T city and the Ohio Department of Transportation studied this one-mile stretch from Dorr and Byrne to Dorr and Westwood and found it's become one of the work crash corridors in the entire state.

The city wants to make improvements, according Jen Sorgenfrei, spokesperson for the City of Toledo.  "Anything we can do to increase safety in that area we're going to pursue."

So, city council is likely to approve receiving a $3.5 Million dollar grant from ODOT to make some improvements.

From Byrne to Secor, Dorr Street will get a 6th lane and some medians.

From Secor to Westwood, Dorr will get medians.

Sorgenfrei says, "These are things that are going to be long-term remediation given the amount of development that's going on in that area and the vehicle traffic flow that we have going down that street."

Construction won't begin until 20-14.  The study and design phaze cost $2.7 Million dollars, about $207,000 of that is City of Toledo money.

Do not expect more traffic lights... or any change in the speed limit.

Dorr Street is a state route and Toledo cannot make those types of changes without state approval.

Toledo will kick in about 350-thousand dollars for construction of this project, pending council approval, which is expected.  That money will come from the capital improvement budget.

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