Project History
In 2017 and 2018, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), the City, and the Detroit Shoreway and Ohio City neighborhoods engaged in a comprehensive planning process to understand Franklin’s crash and speed dynamics and make recommendations to calm traffic, improve safety, and increase bicyclist and pedestrian comfort along the corridor. This planning process was the result of years of resident advocacy and agency partnerships, including technical planning assistance from NOACA staff. Through surveys, meetings, mailings, corridor signage, emails, social media, and news coverage, hundreds of residents and other corridor users were engaged to inform the recommendations in the Franklin Traffic Calming Transportation for Liveable Communities Initiative (TLCI) plan. Although some adjustments from the TLCI plan are necessary as the design advances from conceptual to engineering design standards, many of the plan recommendations are incorporated in the project designs presented on this website, including replacing traffic signals with neighborhood traffic circles, adding high visibility crosswalks and rectangular rapid flashing beacons, and using no parking zones to define the roadway and shorten pedestrian crossing distances.

For a complete overview of the Franklin Traffic Calming planning materials, engagement process, and feedback received, visit www.noaca.org/franklin. ​