Ohio

[The Ghostbuster]

How many homes and businesses would have to be demolished to implement each alternative?

[vtk]

The decorative fencing installed along Interstate 670 during its reconstruction around 23 years ago will be replaced with vandal-protective fencing, including the Gooddale and High Street caps, next year (ODOT). The decorative fencing was a compromise with community leaders who had initially balked at vandal-protective chain-link fencing. The base of the fencing will also be repaired. Just a visual walk-around showed some deterioration of the fencing and concrete bases because of salt intrusion. Still, it would be disappointing to see this replaced with some generic fencing. Public commenting is still open.

Has vandalism been a problem? How are the existing fences not as protective against vandalism than the proposed chain link?

[GCrites]

It looks like they've added chain-link fence fabric to the decorative fencing already on the Goodale Cap.

[seicer]

Was it the result of people throwing things onto the interstate? Those fences were quite tall. I haven't walked over Gooddale in a while.

[vtk]

(Good ale, not good dale. Only one d.)

[TempoNick]

ODOT claiming major investments for Central Ohio m

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/central-ohio-news/odot-planning-major-investments-in-central-ohio-roads/amp/

[74/171FAN]

Anyway, an update from the I-71/I-670 crash in May also posted last night.

[TempoNick]

Anyway, an update from the I-71/I-670 crash in May also posted last night.

They won't give a name. I thought the whole point of putting people's names in the media was for the ridicule and to teach people not to do stupid things again.

[PColumbus73]

Anyway, an update from the I-71/I-670 crash in May also posted last night.

They won't give a name. I thought the whole point of putting people's names in the media was for the ridicule and to teach people not to do stupid things again.

I feel like they should have been charged with leaving the scene. It makes me wonder how the other driver's auto insurance determined who was 'at fault'.

[vtk]

the Interstate 70/71 split in downtown Columbus has been an active construction zone for decades.

No, it hasn't. If you consider all of the freeways all around downtown, yeah there was always something going on somewhere almost continuously from the early 90s to 2003, and again from 2011 to now. But if you look closer, that's been a construction zone here, then a construction zone there, et c. Characterizing it as one continuously-operated construction zone is just not true.

[TempoNick]

Anyway, an update from the I-71/I-670 crash in May also posted last night.

They won't give a name. I thought the whole point of putting people's names in the media was for the ridicule and to teach people not to do stupid things again.

I feel like they should have been charged with leaving the scene. It makes me wonder how the other driver's auto insurance determined who was 'at fault'.

the Interstate 70/71 split in downtown Columbus has been an active construction zone for decades.

No, it hasn't. If you consider all of the freeways all around downtown, yeah there was always something going on somewhere almost continuously from the early 90s to 2003, and again from 2011 to now. But if you look closer, that's been a construction zone here, then a construction zone there, et c. Characterizing it as one continuously-operated construction zone is just not true.

All those flyover ramps and the intertwining of I-70 and I-71 seems like overkill to me. I wonder if the project would have been easier if their focus would have been on upgrading I-670 for I-71 through traffic. It seems to me that if I-71 follows that path, it takes traffic off of the split. And there is so much bad design on the old section, it's just begging to be reconfigured.