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LORDSTOWN Police Chief Brent Milhoan said he has received calls and complaints from residents about trains blocking traffic on Salt Springs and Muth roads.
Milhoan told village council at its meeting earlier this week that he received calls from truck drivers who have had to wait almost an hour at the location due to trains at the railroad crossing and suggested trucks be rerouted on Lyntz Road to Tod Avenue.
Milhoan said it was not advised to have trucks on Lyntz Road since it is not a truck route and has residential areas.
Mayor Arno Hill said council’s road committee will review the matter.
LORDSTOWN FirstEnergy will invest more than $31 million here to expand its transmission system to support the rapidly growing electric-vehicle industry, led, in part, by the advanced technology battery-cell plant Ultium Cells LLC.
The two-phase project will supply a backup line to the massive Tod Avenue SW facility and a third primary line meant to “accommodate projected future energy needs,” Lauren Siburkis, spokeswoman for the Akron-based electric company, said.
Under construction now is phase one, a new 106,250-square-foot substation on Tod Avenue SW near Henn Parkway and a half-mile, high-voltage transmission line that will connect to an existing high-voltage line nearby.
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LORDSTOWN FirstEnergy will invest more than $31 million here to expand its transmission system to support the rapidly growing electric-vehicle industry, led, in part, by the advanced technology battery-cell plant Ultium Cells LLC.
The two-phase project will supply a backup line to the massive Tod Avenue SW facility and a third primary line meant to “accommodate projected future energy needs,” Lauren Siburkis, spokeswoman for the Akron-based electric company, said.
Under construction now is phase one, a new 106,250-square-foot substation on Tod Avenue SW near Henn Parkway and a half-mile, high-voltage transmission line that will connect to an existing high-voltage line nearby.
Staff writer
WORK PROGRESSES â This Jan. 7 photo of the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lordstown shows the scope of the facility that will mass produce battery cells for General Motorsâ electric vehicles. The company wants to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year and plans to ramp up to 1,100 through 2022, the expected production start date. To the east is the natural gas-fired power plant Lordstown Energy Center.
LORDSTOWN Ultium Cells LLC an electric vehicle battery-cell manufacturing plant jointly backed by General Motors and South Korea’s LG Chem plans to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year.