Enhancing Our Primary Corridors

It’s easy to point out the visual impact of street trees or putting utility pipes underground along a primary corridor, but making a corridor function as a whole is a challenge that takes years of intentional, incremental investments. Since 2012, Hamilton has been focused on improving our primary Main and High Street corridors by systematically addressing problematic intersections and making various other improvements spanning between Erie Boulevard (State Route 4) and Cereal/Haldimand Avenues Intersection. These improvements not only helped traffic flow, but have also improved safety for motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians. Thanks to significant grant support, more than $28.1 million in improvements has been invested along High Street, Main Street, and B Street over the last ten years. Over the next few years, Engineering will take focus on Tylersville Road which recently benefited from the completion of the Five Points roundabout. Outside of simply repaving, it is also expected that the intersection of Tylersville Road and Hamilton Enterprise Park Drive will be evaluated for potential improvements.

Taking Our Traffic Controls into the 21st Century

By the end of 2023, all of Hamilton’s signalized intersections will be updated to a new Centralized Traffic Signal System. The biggest advantage of this $6.0 million project comes in the form of having smarter traffic signals and connection to a central traffic controller. This allows for rich, ongoing data collection related to traffic flows in the city, and gives our team the ability to update signal programs without needing to physically go to each intersection. Additionally, the new system will be capable of making automatic adjustments to signal timing along key corridors in real time as traffic conditions change, as well as allow for emergency vehicle preemption, and provide automatic text message notification of potential system issues to operations staff. Once completed, each intersection will not only have new state of the art signal hardware, camera traffic detection, control hardware, battery backup, and fiber optic connectivity, but also new ADA accessible pedestrian sidewalk ramps. To top it all off, $4.6MM of the project was supported directly through the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT).

How Engineering Helps Us Get the Job Done Right

Hamilton is fortunate to count more than 23 engineers among our ranks with a number of different technical disciplines. Seven of our engineers are professionally licensed in the State of Ohio, meaning they continue to meet the rigorous requirements which demonstrate they are qualified to be in charge of public engineering projects. Our team of professionals follow projects from start to finish and evaluate and solve problems as they arise. Each brings a unique set of engineering skills and experience to the table to create an interdisciplinary work environment that focuses on the result of an infrastructure improvement rather than the scope of a project.