Youngstown plans autonomous transit and downtown redevelopment
A significant change is on the way for several streets in downtown Youngstown next year.
A significant change is on the way for several streets in downtown Youngstown next year.
SMART-2 is $22 million transportation infrastructure project that will renovate the downtown and the Fifth Avenue corridor.
The goal is to improve connectivity from the downtown to YSU to the hospital by implementing autonomous shuttles to those locations.
Buses and bicycles will have their lanes apart
"We're taking Front Street, Federal Street, Commerce Street. We're road dieting all those streets and improving their walkability, their connectivity, and their crossings. Road diets means getting them down to three lanes in each direction," said Jim Kinnick of Eastgate Regional Council of Governments.
The current construction on Fifth Avenue is separate from SMART-2.
The new project will begin next April and should be finished in late 2021.
A public meeting will be held on those plans on September 26th at the Eastgate offices.
