Vick-Martin road work done, but traffic light still several months away

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While the widening of the road and addition of turn lanes at the intersection of Vick Road and Martin Street near Apopka High School was opened to traffic prior to the beginning of the school year on Monday, August 12, the design, manufacture, and installation of the traffic light will take nearly nine months as the light isn’t expected to be turned on for motorists until mid-May 2020.

The roadwork took an extra week to finish, but the intersection now has a westbound left-turn lane for Martin Street onto Vick Road, and a northbound left-turn lane for Vick into a new subdivision (Zarabrooke) where construction is just beginning.

However, it will take 38 weeks before the traffic signal is installed with most of that time, 30 weeks, due to the manufacturing of the traffic light poles and mast arms, according to city officials.

Vladimir Simonovski, the city’s utility design manager, said there is
extensive lead time around the nation and that 30 weeks are needed to
have the poles and mast arms manufactured.

It will take four weeks for the design and approval of the drawings for the traffic signal, then the 30 weeks for the signal poles and mast arms to be made, then four weeks for installation and testing, meaning the current schedule calls for the process to be completed by May 10, 2020.

The entire project is costing the city of Apopka $600,000 with the developers of Zarabrooke sharing in the cost of the traffic signal.

This story appears in full on page 1A of the Friday, August 16, issue of The Apopka Chief. To learn more about what happened in the past week, subscribe today!