Posted on 03/29/2019 1:10:56 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The stretch of Interstate 75 that runs through the city of Cincinnati has been under construction for nearly a decade. Nine years ago, the Ohio Department of Transportation began the Mill Creek Expressway improvement project, at an estimated total cost of $550-650 million. The project's goal is to improve the integrity of the roadway and increase vehicle capacity.
But is increasing capacity on a highway system that the state has admitted it cannot afford to maintain — under current funding levels — really the best idea? Like most things related to infrastructure in Ohio, points of view vary.
It's the first time the interstate highway has undergone a major overhaul since its construction in the 1960s. The face-lift has been major, all the way down to the foundations of the roadway where it meets the topsoil underneath. It also has included adding a lane of traffic in each direction through portions of the tightly populated urban basin neighborhoods.
As the project draws toward its final phases — hopefully quickly; it's still unclear when crews will complete construction — the stretch of highway is wider than it's ever been.
Ben Smeeks drives I-75 from his Covington home to work in West Chester every day. The 30-year-old Aurora, Indiana native moved into the region's urban core about six years ago and began commuting daily on 75 about three years after that. In addition to working as a musician, Smeeks also has a day job hanging drywall for a local company working primarily throughout the region's northernmost suburbs.
In other words, his jobs have him on the road a lot. He said navigating I-75 up and down between Covington and West Chester is easily the worst part of his many commutes.
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Another liberal progressive Boston big dig scam. Liberal progressive rot. Guess who is from Maryland? The now self hating old white guy obamas court jester
I used to commute from Dayton to downtown Cincinnati. I went out of my way to jog east and drive down I-71 so as to avoid I-75.
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I’ve got news for Ohio: Thanks to Kasich’s Medicaid expansion, Ohio won’t be able to afford jack spit soon.
Where is the reporting from WKRP in Cinci when you need a sense of perspective and humor?
Ohio screw up? Probably... Although personally, I-70 through Indianapolis ranks as one of the worst sections of big interstate I’ve ever seen. I went through there about two years ago, and again about a year ago and not only had it not been repaired, it was even worse.
Just like the Big Dig this is all about eternal payback to construction unions in exchange for their political support.
“Where is the reporting from WKRP in Cinci when you need a sense of perspective and humor?”
I got WCPO in Cincinnati......
That drive is fine until about Sharonville. Rather go the back way through Hueston Woods and head for KI then turning left to get into Cinci. When I used to go that route Jungle Jim was always a great place to visit. Of course, there was the always “Can you stop and get some chocolate at Esther Price?” It’s regional but better than the stuff from Cali everyone that never heard of Esther Price seems to die for.
I always went through Bellbrook- Waynesville- Lebanon- then down to I-71.
Deport their illegals and visa overstays and there won’t be a traffic problem thus eliminating the need for more infrastructure.
Kentucky and Ohio have been doing long twerm reconstruction of I-75 from South of the river to North of Dayton for the past 20 years.
In Northern Kentucky they straightend out the cut in the hill just south of the Brent Spence Bridge.
In Ohio, the freeway has been completely rebuilt from from I-275 to I-70 The section passing St. Bernard South of the Norwood Lateral has also been rebuilt.
Given that I-75 from South of I-275 to the Brent Spence, and in fact the bridge itself, are functionally obsolete and have been for decades, I wouldn’t classify this as a payoff. It is much need work and a basic function of the state’s responsibilities.
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I spent some formative years in the Dayton area. 45 minutes to KI from my house. I can’t remember the back road names/numbers. I was there in 2013 doing a 9-month stint as a contractor to a major corporation. They said they were MNC worth billions and I said well those billions are underpaying me and I am teaching your employees in India a job they should already know. I quit since there was no hope of promotion and no hope of a pay raise.
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