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City wants grant to widen dangerous intersection

Local leaders ask school district to help with cost
By Jim Pruitt
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Congestion and a rash of crashes at Platt and Redman roads could be resolved if the city can secure a federal grant. The Milan City Council adopted a resolution Sept. 24 to seek a Federal Local Safety Program grant through the Michigan Department of Transportation to help pay for the project to expand the intersection near Milan High School. The intersection has been the site of 12 crashes over the past five years, with one involving per-

sonal injury. The city identified the intersection as having significant safety issues in its 2008 Transportation Master Plan and also recognized the congestion issues, City Administrator Benjamin Swayze said. The intersection has a signal, but no left-turn lights or lanes. The city believes the project is ideally suited for the federal safety grant based on the number of accidents at the intersection. Of the 12 crashes that have occurred there, 11 were property damage and one was a personal injury crash. Nine of the crashes were rearend straight accidents, two were head-on straight and one was a head-on angle accident, city documents show. Those documents further state the trend is for more crashes due to the lack of a left

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Milan City Mayor Kym Muckler talks Sept. 24 at the City Council meeting. She wants to know if the school district could help pay for the widening of Platt and Redman Road intersection since its the high school that is causing the trafc congestion. turn lane or signal.

The intersection has seen more traffic since the new high school opened in 2003. Without a turn lane and signal, traffic can get backed up when someone makes a left turn. This is especially true when school starts or lets out. If someone is turning left, they have to wait for all the oncoming traffic to get through, leaving only time for one or two cars to turn. So if you are leaving the high school, it can take 20 to 25 minutes to get through the intersection, Swayze said. The project would involve adding right- and left-turn lanes on each leg of the intersection, along with a signal that directs left turns. The project will mean a wider roadway for 520 feet from the intersection
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30-foot-long tower bought in 1927
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It was a family reunion of sorts, as area family members gathered at the Milan home of Jill and

Brad Neuhart for a windmill raising. The 30-foot-long tower was raised in the air, after more than four years of reconstruction, in honor of Neuharts grandfather, Erwin Neuhart, who was 99 years old when he died in 2011. My grandpa would be so happy if he could be

here today, Neuhart said. Great-grandfather Henry purchased the Fairbury windmill in 1927 for use on his farm in Deshler, Neb. Years later, Neuhart and his father, Tom Neuhart, decided to bring the family relic to Michigan, where the fam-

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Library gets OK to move boiler upstairs at City Hall

Deal made on a handshake at City Hall
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Milan Library Director Susan West addresses the City Council about her request to move the librarys boiler from the basement at City Hall to a utility closet.

The Milan Public Library will be putting in a new boiler in a utility closet at City

Hall. While that sounds simple enough, the City Council spent a considerable amount of time debating whether to approve the project without a written contract defining terms and responsibilities. The library is in the middle of a heating,
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