BOARDMAN The Ohio Department of Transportation on Thursday announced changes to its plan to improve safety on U.S. Route 224 in Boardman Township, a move resulting from public feedback collected earlier this year. The project, which covers a 1.70-mile stretch of the heavily traveled road between Market Street and Tiffany Boulevard, is an attempt to tackle a high number of crashes and traffic jams in the area.

The need for this work stems from the corridor’s history of traffic incidents. Between 2013 and 2017, a total of 1,877 crashes occurred in the project area. More than 30 percent of those crashes led to an injury, and three involved fatalities. Traffic data shows the main crash types are rear-end collisions (60 percent), left-turn crashes (14 percent), and sideswipe-passing accident

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