New Traffic Lights Go On Wednesday Morning

Two long-awaited new traffic lights get turned on today in Avon.

The lights -- one at the intersection of Kinzel Road and Stoney Ridge Road just south of Avon Middle School, and the other at the intersection of Carleen Avenue, Colorado Avenue and Bridge Pointe Trail -- have been on as blinking lights for the last week.

Wednesday morning, they go to red-yellow-green regular lights.

The fine for running a red light is $100, according to the .

The city has been trying for at least 10 years to get a light in at the Colorado-Carleen-Bridge Pointe intersection, said Avon city engineer Robert Knopf.

Residents from the Stonebridge development need to cross Colorado Avenue to get to . Stonebridge residents have also complained that they have had a hard time turning left onto Colorado Avenue to get to Interstate 90.

The light finally got the go-ahead last summer. It took the Ohio Department of Transportation on that stretch of Colorado Avenue from 35 to 45 miles per hour to warrant the light.

Since Colorado Avenue is also State Route 611, ODOT was in charge of whether or not there would be a traffic light.

It took no longer busing students starting in 2010 to get the light in at Stoney Ridge and Kinzel, said city planning coordinator Jim Piazza.

"That's the pedestrian entrance to the high school for a lot of kids walking to school," he said.